From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Advent of Code Day 4
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 19:25:05 +0100 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <348b76a7-0a9d-497c-94e7-cb822502d9b9n@googlegroups.com>
On 12/4/20 5:16 PM, John Perry wrote:
> I found this one tougher, in part because I've never done much text file processing, but also because the directions were very scant on the format of the entries, and I wasn't about to comb carefully through hundreds of entries to see what all the variations might be.
>
> I'll be very interested to see how different people read the file.
Enumeration types are your friend.
--
Jeff Carter
"[O]ne can look forward to a rapid and widespread
improvement in programming practice, both from
those who use the language [Ada] and from those
who study its concepts and structures."
C. A. R. Hoare
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2020-12-04 16:16 Advent of Code Day 4 John Perry
2020-12-04 18:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2020-12-04 19:33 ` gautier...@hotmail.com
2020-12-04 20:20 ` Maxim Reznik
2020-12-04 21:27 ` gautier...@hotmail.com
2020-12-05 3:56 ` Simon Beàn
2020-12-05 15:11 ` John Perry
2020-12-04 22:55 ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-04 23:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-12-05 0:11 ` recantation Bill Findlay
2020-12-05 2:06 ` Advent of Code Day 4 Stephen Leake
2020-12-05 11:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-12-05 14:00 ` Stephen Leake
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