Advent of Code 2023 Day 1 (BaseA Style)

[AlteryxCommunityTeam]

Discussion thread for day 1 of the Advent of Code - https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/1

[Gem]

I'm so excited about this! 

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[alisonpitt]

I feel like there's an easier way to do this but I got there eventually! 😊

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For part 2 I went the route of finding all the number numbers and word numbers by position, extracting them and putting them back in order before going back to the same workflow as in part 1. This one took a couple tries because I missed 1) the overlapping word numbers, 2) regex won't catch both 'one' and 'two' in twone just using one|two 🙃 Every day's a school day!

[alisonpitt]

I feel certain I did this the hard way but it's fine 😅

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[JeffF]

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[Watermark]

2nd part was tough

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[JoshuaB]

Really I would think this is something we should look into adding to the find/replace as an option! 

[gawa]

 Revisiting this problem, enjoy playing tool-golf. 5 tools.

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[IraWatt]

Overlapping numbers 🤢 - took me a while to figure out I didn't know how many letters there are in Three, got there in the end.

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[CandiceDB]

Part 2 took a minute but finally there! My solution 😊:

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[keylyn]

Part 2 took a while!

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Finding the possible number combinations was tricky! I happened to notice the "oneight" in the example, otherwise I think I would have really struggled to figure it out!