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//! # Doesn't He Have Intern-Elves For This?
//!
//! [Regular expressions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression) are a good fit for this
//! problem. However in the interest of speed we'll take a different approach for both parts.
//!
//! ## Part One
//! Each string consists only of lowercase ASCII characters so the cardinality is 26. We can
//! test for vowels and invalid characters more quickly by converting each character into a bitmask
//! that fits into a `i32`. For example `a` becomes `1`, b becomes `10` and so on.
//!
//! To check if a character is a vowel we logically `AND` against `100000100000100010001` which is
//! "aeiou" converted to a bitmask. Similarly to check for the invalid sequence "ab" we `AND`
//! against a mask that has `b` set and notice the previous character is always one less, so we
//! can left shift to reuse the same mask.
//!
//! ## Part Two
//! We can check for non-overlapping pairs in `O(n)` complexity by storing the last seen index of
//! each pair in the string. If the difference is more than one, then we know that the pairs are
//! non-overlapping.
//!
//! Instead of using a `HashMap` we rely on the fact there at most 26² possible combinations
//! in order to use a fixed size array as an implicit data structure. Using zero as a special
//! starting value gives 27² or 729 possibilities. To avoid having to clear the array for each
//! string, we bump the index by 1000 (any value larger than the length of the string would do).
//! This means that if the difference is greater than the current position in the string we can
//! sure that we haven't encountered this pair in this particular string before.
pub fn parse(input: &str) -> Vec<&[u8]> {
input.lines().map(str::as_bytes).collect()
}
pub fn part1(input: &[&[u8]]) -> usize {
let nice = |line: &&&[u8]| {
let mut vowels = 0;
let mut pairs = 0;
let mut previous = 0;
for c in line.iter() {
let current = 1 << (c - b'a');
if 0x101000a & current & (previous << 1) != 0 {
return false;
}
if 0x0104111 & current != 0 {
vowels += 1;
}
if previous == current {
pairs += 1;
} else {
previous = current;
}
}
vowels >= 3 && pairs >= 1
};
input.iter().filter(nice).count()
}
pub fn part2(input: &[&[u8]]) -> usize {
let mut pairs = [0; 729];
let nice = |(base, line): &(usize, &&[u8])| {
let mut first = 0;
let mut second = 0;
let mut two_pair = false;
let mut split_pair = false;
for (offset, c) in line.iter().enumerate() {
let third = (c - b'a' + 1) as usize;
let index = 27 * second + third;
let position = base * 1000 + offset;
let delta = position - pairs[index];
if delta > offset {
pairs[index] = position;
} else if delta > 1 {
two_pair = true;
}
if first == third {
split_pair = true;
}
first = second;
second = third;
}
two_pair && split_pair
};
input.iter().enumerate().filter(nice).count()
}