advent_of_code/2024/3/uiua/README.md

part 1

solution

i first solved it this morning using vim, since i had no idea how to use regex in uiua. this is how i did it in vim (with some regex help from kagi assistant):

:e "input"
100J                                  # there are few lines, join them all
:%s/\(mul(\d\+,\d\+)\)\|\(.\)/\1/g    # find all mul expressions
:%s/mul(\(\d+\),\(\d+\))/\1*\2+/g     # replace all mul expressions with the operands multiplied together with a + appended
$x                                    # remove last +
:'<,'>s/.*/\=eval(submatch(0))        # evaluate the expression

my uiua solution is very similar