Kevin Wilkie continues a series on this year’s advent of code. Day 8:
To make life a little simpler for all of us, I used a variable that I just pasted my instructions into. In my case, I called it @FollowThis allowing it to be up to 300 characters in length. Hopefully, no one’s instructions list is over that length – if so you’ll need to make that adjustment.
I also created a variable called @BackUpOfFollowThis that is strictly a copy of the original @FollowThis variable. (No muss, no fuss)
Once I place all of my inputs into the dbo.AOCDay8 table, we can easily start slicing and dicing.
And the more complex form for day 8:
First, we find out that we’re now starting with multiple positions – anything that ends with an A – and finishing anywhere that ends in a Z.
To make this happen, we’re going to want to create another table that will have all of our positions that end with the letter A.
Click through for Kevin’s solutions.