import Data.List (scanl, tails, transpose, zip4, zipWith4) import Data.Text (Text) import qualified Data.Text as T (lines, unpack) import Lib (readFile') -- new approach was hinted by an anon but I cannot quite get it right -- a fun approach, not necessarily the fastest (or cleanest (or smartest)) main :: IO () main = do input <- map T.unpack . T.lines <$> readFile' "day8.in" putStr "Q1: " print $ q1 input putStr "Q2: " print $ q2 input layer :: [[Char]] -> (a -> a -> a) -> ([[Char]] -> [[a]]) -> [[a]] layer input f f' = zipWith4 ( zipWith4 (\w x y z -> f w . f x $ f y z) ) (f' e) (map reverse $ f' w) (transpose $ f' n) (reverse . transpose $ f' s) where (e, w, n, s) = ( input, map reverse input, transpose input, transpose $ reverse input ) -- (east, west, north, south] q1 :: [[Char]] -> Int q1 input = length . filter not . concat $ layer input (&&) q1' where q1' :: [[Char]] -> [[Bool]] q1' = map (\x -> zipWith (<=) x $ scanl max minBound x) q2 :: [[Char]] -> Int q2 input = maximum . concat $ layer input (*) q2' where q2' :: [[Char]] -> [[Int]] q2' = map ( \a -> [ let l = length (takeWhile (< x) xs) in (+ l) . fromEnum $ length xs /= l | (x : xs) <- tails a ] )