using System; using System.Collections; namespace Advent24 { internal class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string fileData = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"..\..\..\inputd1.txt"); var pairsArray = fileData.Split('\n'); var list1 = new SortedList(pairsArray.Length); var list2 = new SortedList(pairsArray.Length); foreach(var pair in pairsArray) { if (System.String.IsNullOrEmpty(pair)) continue; // pairArray has 4 elements, and the middle two are blanks // because there are 3 spaces between the two numbers var pairArray = pair.Split(' '); Int32 myInteger = System.Convert.ToInt32(pairArray[0]); if (list1.TryGetValue(myInteger, out int value1)) list1[myInteger] = ++value1; else list1.Add(myInteger, 1); Console.WriteLine("{0:d} {1:d}", myInteger, list1[myInteger]); myInteger = System.Convert.ToInt32(pairArray[3]); if (list2.TryGetValue(myInteger, out int value2)) list2[myInteger] = ++value2; else list2.Add(myInteger, 1); Console.WriteLine("{0:d} {1:d}", myInteger, list2[myInteger]); } Int32 sumOfDifferences = 0; Int32 i = 0, j = 0; var list1Copy = new SortedList(list1); var list2Copy = new SortedList(list2); while (i < list1.Count && j < list2.Count) { Int32 value1 = list1.GetKeyAtIndex(i); Int32 value2 = list2.GetKeyAtIndex(j); if (value1 > value2) sumOfDifferences += (value1 - value2); else sumOfDifferences += (value2 - value1); list1[value1]--; list2[value2]--; if (list1[value1] == 0) i++; if (list2[value2] == 0) j++; } Console.WriteLine("{0:s} {1:d}", "Sum of differences = ", sumOfDifferences); i = 0; Int32 similarityScore = 0; while (i < list1Copy.Count) { Int32 value1 = list1Copy.GetKeyAtIndex(i); list2Copy.TryGetValue(value1, out Int32 numberOfAppearancesInList2); // default value of Int32 numberOfAppearancesInList2 is 0 similarityScore += value1 * numberOfAppearancesInList2; list1Copy[value1]--; if (list1Copy[value1] == 0) i++; } Console.WriteLine("{0:s} {1:d}", "Similarity score = ", similarityScore); Console.ReadLine(); } } }