From 26300d0d547e74cdd431c84f383616ce9f6e5499 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Worthe <justin.worthe@entelect.co.za>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:05:29 +0200
Subject: AOC14

Should work for part 2, but the performance isn't there yet
---
 aoc14/src/main.rs | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 aoc14/src/main.rs

(limited to 'aoc14/src/main.rs')

diff --git a/aoc14/src/main.rs b/aoc14/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e68e6a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aoc14/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+extern crate md5;
+
+fn main() {
+//    let input = "abc";
+    let input = "yjdafjpo";
+    let mut index = 0;
+    let mut results_found = 0;
+    while results_found < 64 {
+        let hash = stretched_hash(format!("{}{}", input, index));
+        
+        let threes = find_concurrent_symbols(&hash, 3, true);
+        if threes.len() > 0 {
+//            println!("Found three at {} -> {}", index, hash);
+            for i in 1..1001 {
+                let hash = stretched_hash(format!("{}{}", input, index+i));
+                let fives = find_concurrent_symbols(&hash, 5, true);
+                if fives.iter().any(|c| threes.contains(c)) {
+                    results_found += 1;
+//                    println!("Five found at {} -> {}", index+i, hash);
+                    println!("Found hash {} at index {}", results_found, index);
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        index += 1;
+    }
+    
+}
+
+fn find_concurrent_symbols(hash: &String, count: u8, exit_early: bool) -> Vec<char> {
+    let mut last_symbol = None;
+    let mut last_symbol_run = 0;
+    let mut matches = Vec::new();
+    for c in hash.chars() {
+        let symbol_matches = match last_symbol {
+            Some(s) => s == c,
+            None => false
+        };
+
+        if symbol_matches {
+            last_symbol_run += 1;
+            if last_symbol_run >= count && !matches.contains(&c) {
+                matches.push(c);
+                if exit_early {
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            last_symbol = Some(c);
+            last_symbol_run = 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    matches
+}
+
+
+fn hash_to_string(hash: &[u8; 16]) -> String {
+    let mut result = String::with_capacity(32);
+    
+    for &byte in hash.iter() {
+        result.push_str(format!("{:02x}", byte).as_ref());
+    }
+    result
+}
+
+fn stretched_hash(input: String) -> String {
+    let mut result = input;
+    for _ in 0..2017 {
+        result = string_hash(result);
+    }
+    result
+}
+
+fn string_hash(input: String) -> String {
+    let bytes_to_hash = input.into_bytes();
+    let hash = md5::compute(bytes_to_hash.as_slice());
+    hash_to_string(&hash)
+}
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