Solution for assignment4.

README.md

@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
-# Advent of Code 2022 - Assignment3 javascript solution
-This problem is all about searching for duplicates in strings. The solution is implemented using slice to split the string in half. 
-The priority is retrieved using the ASCII charcode character for convienence. How to retrieve inputs differs between part1 and 2, therefore a checkbox is provided to toggle between different parsing methods.
+# Advent of Code 2022 - Assignment 4 - javascript
+## Description
+The problem for assignment4 deals with overlaps and string parsing. The provided solution for this argument uses substring to parse ranges from file. Furthermore it has a checkbox to trigger whether ranges should fully overlap.
 
 ## References
-- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/94037/convert-character-to-ascii-code-in-javascript
-- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20474257/split-string-into-two-parts
-- https://www.folkstalk.com/2022/10/find-common-characters-in-two-strings-javascript-with-code-examples.html
-- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/351409/how-to-append-something-to-an-array
-- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9862761/how-to-check-if-character-is-a-letter-in-javascript
-- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966476/how-can-i-process-each-letter-of-text-using-javascript
-- https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_arrays.asp
+- https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_indexof.asp
+- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/convert-a-string-to-an-integer-in-javascript/#:~:text=In%20JavaScript%20parseInt()%20function,argument%20of%20parseInt()%20function.
+- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/substring
+- https://medium.com/@raihan_tazdid/overlapping-numbers-in-ranges-5d0f2efc294e

index.html

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <p>Assignment:</p>
     <textarea rows="15" cols="50" id="assignment"></textarea>
     <input type="checkbox" id="algorithm"/>
-    <label for="algorithm">Solution by compartiment.</label> 
+    <label for="algorithm">Full overlap</label> 
 
     <p>Answer:</p>
     <div id="answer">Provide input first</div>

script.js

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 const ASSIGNMENT = 'assignment';
 const ANSWER = 'answer';
 const ALGORITHM_CHECKBOX = 'algorithm';
-const CHARCODE_START=64;
-const CHARCODE_UPPER_CORRECTION=6;
-const ERROR_MESSAGE_INVALID_INPUT_SIZE = "Invalid input size, should be higher than 2 for: ";
-const ERROR_MESSAGE_INVALID_ITEM_CHARACTER = "Invalid item character found: ";
+const ERROR_MESSAGE_INVALID_RANGE = "Invalid range, ";
+const COMMA_CHARACTER = ',';
 const NEWLINE_CHARACTER = '\n';
+const RANGE_CHARACTER = '-';
 
 /**
  * Main function
@@ -22,8 +21,8 @@ window.onload = function() {
 function calculateAnswer(event) {
   console.info("Calculating answer for input...");
   let assignment = document.getElementById(ASSIGNMENT).value;
-  let byCompartiments = document.getElementById(ALGORITHM_CHECKBOX).checked;
-  let answer = algorithm(assignment, byCompartiments);
+  let fullOverlap = document.getElementById(ALGORITHM_CHECKBOX).checked;
+  let answer = algorithm(assignment, fullOverlap);
 
   document.getElementById(ANSWER).innerText = answer;
 }
@@ -31,123 +30,73 @@ function calculateAnswer(event) {
 /**
  * Calculate the answer to assignment.
  * @param assignment the input from the assignment.
+ * @param fullOverlap if input needs to fully overlap.
  * @return string the answer
  */
-function algorithm(assignment, byCompartiments) {
-    let priorityScoreSum = 0;
+function algorithm(assignment, fullOverlap) {
     let lines = assignment.trim().split(NEWLINE_CHARACTER);
     console.info("Linecount:" + lines.length);
 
-    let increment = (byCompartiments)? 1:3;
-    for(let i=0; i<lines.length; i+=increment) {
-        let inputs = [];
-        let rucksack = lines[i].replace(/\s/g, ''); // Remove whitespace
+    let containedPairs = 0;
+    for(let i=0; i<lines.length; i++) {
+        let error = false;
+        let ranges = lines[i].trim();
+        // Search for separation charactes -,-
+        let range1CharacterIndex = ranges.indexOf(RANGE_CHARACTER);
+        let range1EndCharacterIndex = ranges.indexOf(COMMA_CHARACTER);
+        let range2CharacterIndex = ranges.indexOf(RANGE_CHARACTER, range1CharacterIndex+1);
 
-        if(byCompartiments) {
-            let compartiment1 = rucksack.slice(0, rucksack.length/2);
-            let compartiment2 = rucksack.slice(rucksack.length/2);
-            inputs = [compartiment1, compartiment2];
-        } else {
-            inputs = [rucksack, lines[i+1].replace(/\s/g, ''), lines[i+2].replace(/\s/g, '')];
+        // Get range substrings
+        let range1LowerString = ranges.substring(0,range1CharacterIndex);
+        let range1HigherString = ranges.substring(range1CharacterIndex+1, range1EndCharacterIndex);
+        let range2LowerString = ranges.substring(range1EndCharacterIndex+1, range2CharacterIndex);
+        let range2HigherString = ranges.substring(range2CharacterIndex+1);
+        console.debug("Parsed values: " + range1LowerString + "-" + range1HigherString + "," + range2LowerString + "-" + range2HigherString);
+
+        // Parse to int
+        let range1Lower = parseInt(range1LowerString);
+        let range1Higher = parseInt(range1HigherString);
+        let range2Lower = parseInt(range2LowerString);
+        let range2Higher = parseInt(range2HigherString);
+
+        // Validation
+        if(range1Lower > range1Higher) {
+            console.error(ERROR_MESSAGE_INVALID_RANGE + range1Lower + "-" + range1Higher + " on line:" + i + " for range1");
+            error = true;
+        }
+        if(range2Lower > range2Higher) {
+            console.error(ERROR_MESSAGE_INVALID_RANGE + range2Lower + "-" + range2Higher + " on line:" + i + " for range2");
+            error = true;
         }
 
-        let duplicate = getDuplicateCharacter(inputs);
-        if(duplicate < 0) {
-            console.error(ERROR_MESSAGE_INVALID_INPUT_SIZE + inputs + " on line: " + i);
-        }
-
-        let priorityScore = getPriorityScore(duplicate);
-        if(priorityScore < 0) {
-            console.error(ERROR_MESSAGE_INVALID_ITEM_CHARACTER + duplicate + " on line: " + i);
+        if(error) {
             continue;
         }
-        priorityScoreSum += priorityScore;
-    }
 
-    return "SUM priorityscore: " + priorityScoreSum;
-}
-
-/**
- * Calculate the answer to assignment.
- * @param assignment the input from the assignment.
- * @return string the answer
- */
- function algorithm1(assignment) {
-    let priorityScoreSum = 0;
-    let lines = assignment.trim().split(NEWLINE_CHARACTER);
-    console.info("Linecount:" + lines.length);
-
-    for(let i=0; i<lines.length; i++) {
-        let rucksack = lines[i].replace(/\s/g, ''); // Remove whitespace
-        let compartiment1 = rucksack.slice(0, rucksack.length/2);
-        let compartiment2 = rucksack.slice(rucksack.length/2);
-
-        console.debug("Check rucksack" + i, ": " + rucksack + " \n with compartiment1: " + compartiment1 + "\n and compartiment2: " + compartiment2);
-        
-        for(item of compartiment2) {
-            if(compartiment1.includes(item)) {
-                console.debug("Found duplicate: " + item + " in rucksack" + i);
-                let priorityScore = getPriorityScore(item);
-                if(priorityScore < 0) {
-                    console.error(ERROR_MESSAGE_INVALID_ITEM_CHARACTER + item + " on line: " + i);
-                    continue;
-                }
-                priorityScoreSum += priorityScore;
-                break;
-            }
+        // Check for overlap
+        if(fullOverlap && doesRangeFullyOverlap(range1Lower, range1Higher, range2Lower, range2Higher) 
+            || !fullOverlap && doesRangeOverlap(range1Lower, range1Higher, range2Lower, range2Higher)) {
+            console.debug("Found overlapping range:" + range1Lower + "-" + range1Higher + "," + range2Lower + "-" + range2Higher);
+            containedPairs++;
         }
     }
 
-    return "SUM priorityscore: " + priorityScoreSum;
+    return "Fully overlapping timeslot counts: " + containedPairs;
 }
 
-/**
- * Find duplicate character in inputs.
- * @param string[] inputs the inputs to find duplicates in. 
- * @return char the duplicate character
- */
-function getDuplicateCharacter(inputs) {
-    console.debug("Checking inputs: " + inputs);
-    if(inputs.length < 2) {
-        return -1;
-    }
-
-    for(let item of inputs[0]) {
-        let duplicate = true
-        for(let j=1; j<inputs.length; j++) {
-            duplicate = duplicate && inputs[j].includes(item);
-        }
-
-        if(duplicate) {
-            console.debug("Found duplicate: " + item);
-            return item;
-        }
-    }
+function doesRangeFullyOverlap(lower, higher, lower2, higher2) {
+    console.debug("Compare range: " + lower + "-" + higher + " with " + lower2 + "-" + higher2);
+    if(lower > higher || lower2 > higher2) {
+        return false;
+    } 
+    return ((lower <= lower2 && higher >= higher2) || (lower2 <= lower && higher2 >= higher));
 }
 
-/**
- * Returns priorityscore for given character.
- * @param char character the character
- * @return int the priorityscore for character or -1 if invalid 
- */
-function getPriorityScore(character) {
-    let result=0;
-    let uppercase = character.toUpperCase();
-    let lowercase = character.toLowerCase();
-    
-    // validate character
-    if( uppercase == lowercase ) {
-        return -1;
-    }
-    
-    if(character == uppercase) { // Switch results for upper and lowercase characters
-        result -= CHARCODE_UPPER_CORRECTION;
-        character = lowercase;
-    } else {
-        character = uppercase;
-    }
+function doesRangeOverlap(lower, higher, lower2, higher2) {
+    console.debug("Compare range: " + lower + "-" + higher + " with " + lower2 + "-" + higher2);
+    if(lower > higher || lower2 > higher2) {
+        return false;
+    } 
 
-    result += character.charCodeAt() - CHARCODE_START;
-
-    return result;
+    return higher2 >= lower && lower2 <= higher;
 }

style.css

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ body {
   textarea {
     display: block;
   }
-  
+
   #answer {
     color: purple
   }