rust-aoc-template

Template repository for AoC challenges done in Rust. This is based on a template created by Scoder12 on repl.it.

Usage

aocf is required to use run these. This is a wrapper that accesses the AoC website in order to get the inputs. I found this project and thought it was cool. The reason aocf is used is to make sure the most up to date input data is being used. A fall back (instead of aocf) is to specify a filename of the input data. To do this, use the command line options of either --file <FILE> or -f <FILE>

In order to add your puzzle solutions, add a file in src/ called day<num>.rs (or whatever you want to name it). There need to be two functions (publicly available) for the two parts of each puzzle. These functions should return Option<String>, where the String is the answer to the puzzle. An example configuration is shown in the example below.

pub fn part1(input: String) -> Option<String> {
    None
}
pub fn part2(input: String) -> Option<String> {
    None
}

In order to submit, you can run the program with the flag --submit or -s. This will automatically submit the puzzle output, if aocf has been properly configured.

The main program takes an argument for the day number. So for example, to submit the puzzle solution for Day 5, you could run.

cargo run -- 5 --submit