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I haven't been parsing the input string character by character and instead have been parsing into native data structures. It makes the code more verbose but it's how I want to do it. Unfortunately it does mean most of the time coming up with a solution is structuring the data so I'm hoping I come up with a faster way after a few days.
Yeah, I couldn’t see a nice approach today so I fell back on an existing Grid class I’ve used in previous years. Having those existing tools helps a lot.
I'm still working on my part 1 😭 string parsing makes me feel so stupid haha. But I'm adamant on coming up with a "nice" solution even if the number of lines aren't minimal. I've got something quite nice at the moment and I anticipate coming in under 100 lines (including whitespace, comments, and formatting).