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README.md

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+# Advent of Code 2024
+Bearded Eagle's Advent of code solutions. Most of my solutions will be in Python unless I'm feeling a bit adventurous that day.
+
+*2024 - C. Massey Griffin*

day01/day01.py

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+
+#INPUT = './day01/sampleinput.txt'
+INPUT = './day01/input.txt'
+
+def parse_input(file_input:str):
+    leftcol = []
+    rightcol = []
+    with open(file_input) as ifile:
+        for line in ifile.readlines():
+            spair = line.strip().split('   ')
+            leftcol.append(int(spair[0]))
+            rightcol.append(int(spair[1]))
+    return leftcol, rightcol
+
+def p1_solve(left, right):
+    left.sort()
+    right.sort()
+    result = 0
+    for i in range(len(left)):
+        result += abs(left[i] - right[i])
+    print('Answer to part 1 is: {}'.format(result))
+
+def p2_solve(left, right):
+    result = 0
+    for i in range(len(left)):
+        num = left[i]
+        result += num * right.count(num)
+    print('Answer to part 2 is: {}'.format(result))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    l,r = parse_input(INPUT)
+    p1_solve(l,r)
+    p2_solve(l,r)

day01/sampleinput.txt

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+3   4
+4   3
+2   5
+1   3
+3   9
+3   3