Advent of Code 2022 Day 4 (BaseA Style)

[AlteryxCommunityTeam]

Discussion thread for day 4 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/4

[SeanAdams]

Here's my dirty solution for Day 4.
I'm going to redo this solution using an Islands & Gaps approach.

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Full thing including inputs & tester:

Just the final solution:

The Regex: 

The formulae:

[mmontgomery]

Definitely overthought it 

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[mceleavey]

Still waiting for the questions to become beyond my tiny brain...

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I did this two ways. The first using filters, the second using a simple nested IF:

The first part was just splitting the data out into the component parts.

[MeganDibble]

This one was a little nicer than yesterday! I can actually see how the tool golf solution is possible lol

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[Jean-Balteryx]

Day 4 done ! ✅

It was there.

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[DavidP]

@peter_gb I did the same!!! Drove me nuts!!!

[kelsey_kincaid]

Got a late start today, and was maddened by how much single section groups tripped me up, but I got there eventually. Looking forward to playing "golf" with this one!

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[kelsey_kincaid]

Oh I definitely overcomplicated it. Your solution is nice and clean!

[starkey]

This one wasn't too bad, just took some time thinking through the fully contained / overlap formula I went with here:

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[OllieClarke]

catching up from the weekend

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