Solution to Advent of Code 2018 Day 3 in Elixir

Solving Day 3 turned out to be a bit more challenging for me as I don’t usually do these kind of exercises, Nevertheless it was fun!

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defmodule Rect do
defstruct [:id, :left, :top, :width, :height]

alias __MODULE__

def parse(spec) do
[id, dimensions] = String.split(spec, "@", trim: true)
[coords, size] = String.split(dimensions, ":", trim: true)

[left, top] = String.split(coords, ",", trim: true) |> Enum.map(&parse_number/1)

[width, height] = String.split(size, "x", trim: true) |> Enum.map(&parse_number/1)

%Rect{
id: String.trim(id),
left: left,
top: top,
width: width,
height: height
}
end

defp parse_number(str), do: str |> String.trim() |> String.to_integer()

def order_horizontal(r1, r2) do
if r1.left < r2.left do
{r1, r2}
else
{r2, r1}
end
end

def order_vertical(r1, r2) do
if r1.top < r2.top do
{r1, r2}
else
{r2, r1}
end
end

def squares(%Rect{width: w, height: h}) when w <= 0 or h <= 0, do: []

def squares(%Rect{} = r) do
for x <- r.left..(r.left + r.width - 1), y <- r.top..(r.top + r.height - 1), do: {x, y}
end
end

defmodule Overlap do
def area(spec) when is_binary(spec) do
spec
|> String.split("\n", trim: true)
|> Enum.map(&Rect.parse/1)
|> area
end

def area(rects, prev_squares \\ [])

def area([h | tl], prev_squares) do
squares =
tl
|> Enum.map(fn x -> overlap(h, x) |> Rect.squares() end)

area(tl, [squares | prev_squares])
end

def area([], squares),
do:
squares
|> List.flatten()
|> Enum.uniq()
|> Enum.count()

def find_non_overlap(spec) when is_binary(spec) do
rects =
spec
|> String.split("\n", trim: true)
|> Enum.map(&Rect.parse/1)

find_non_overlap(rects, rects)
end

def find_non_overlap([h | tl], all_rects) do
if all_rects
|> Enum.filter(fn x -> x.id != h.id end)
|> Enum.all?(fn x ->
o = overlap(h, x)
o.width <= 0 || o.height <= 0
end) do
h
else
find_non_overlap(tl, all_rects)
end
end

def find_non_overlap([], _), do: raise("Not found")

def overlap(%Rect{} = r1, %Rect{} = r2) do
{l, r} = Rect.order_horizontal(r1, r2)

width = min(l.left + l.width - r.left, r.width)

{t, b} = Rect.order_vertical(r1, r2)

height = min(t.top + t.height - b.top, b.height)

%Rect{
left: r.left,
top: b.top,
width: width,
height: height
}
end
end

defmodule OverlapTest do
use ExUnit.Case

import Overlap

test "greets the world" do
assert area("""
# 1 @ 1,3: 4x4
# 2 @ 3,1: 4x4
# 3 @ 5,5: 2x2
""") == 4

assert area("""
# 1 @ 1,3: 4x4
# 2 @ 3,1: 4x4
# 3 @ 1,3: 4x4
""") == 16

assert File.read!("input.txt") |> area == 0
end

test "overlap between 2 rects" do
assert overlap(
%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 4, height: 8},
%Rect{id: "# 2", left: 3, top: 1, width: 4, height: 4}
) == %Rect{id: nil, left: 3, top: 3, width: 2, height: 2}

assert overlap(
%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 4, height: 4},
%Rect{id: "# 3", left: 5, top: 5, width: 2, height: 2}
) == %Rect{height: 2, id: nil, left: 5, top: 5, width: 0}
end

test "find_non_overlap" do
assert find_non_overlap("""
# 1 @ 1,3: 4x4
# 2 @ 3,1: 4x4
# 3 @ 5,5: 2x2
""").id == "# 3"

assert File.read!("input.txt") |> find_non_overlap == 0
end
end

defmodule RectTest do
use ExUnit.Case

test "parse" do
assert Rect.parse("# 1 @ 1,3: 4x3") == %Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 4, height: 3}
end

test "order_horizontal" do
{%{id: "# 1"}, %{id: "# 2"}} =
Rect.order_horizontal(
%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 4, height: 3},
%Rect{id: "# 2", left: 3, top: 3, width: 4, height: 3}
)

{%{id: "# 4"}, %{id: "# 3"}} =
Rect.order_horizontal(
%Rect{id: "# 3", left: 10, top: 3, width: 4, height: 3},
%Rect{id: "# 4", left: 3, top: 3, width: 4, height: 3}
)
end

test "order_vertical" do
{%{id: "# 1"}, %{id: "# 2"}} =
Rect.order_vertical(
%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 1, width: 4, height: 1},
%Rect{id: "# 2", left: 3, top: 3, width: 4, height: 3}
)

{%{id: "# 4"}, %{id: "# 3"}} =
Rect.order_vertical(
%Rect{id: "# 3", left: 10, top: 10, width: 4, height: 10},
%Rect{id: "# 4", left: 3, top: 3, width: 4, height: 3}
)
end

test "squares" do
assert Rect.squares(%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 2, height: 2}) == [
{1, 3},
{1, 4},
{2, 3},
{2, 4}
]

assert Rect.squares(%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 0, height: 0}) == []
assert Rect.squares(%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 0, height: 4}) == []
assert Rect.squares(%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 4, height: 0}) == []
assert Rect.squares(%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: 4, height: -4}) == []
assert Rect.squares(%Rect{id: "# 1", left: 1, top: 3, width: -4, height: 4}) == []
end
end


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