Advent of Code via SnapLogic IIP
I’ve been a pretty big fan of Advent of Code since I found out about it in 2019 and when I started with SnapLogic in 2021, I figured it could be pretty cool to try to use the SnapLogic IIP to solve a...
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Day 3 was actually another pretty impressive use of SnapLogic, this time I leveraged some really cool properties of data to where I could simply use the expression language to split the letters in the different compartments or rucksacks (depending on the part) and then use a filter + unique to get the one letter that’s common between all of them, by keeping the other compartment/rucksack, that made the unique work better and frankly allowed for less usage of the expression language (which I find to be handy when I’m trying to learn about the different transformation/flow snaps). I also wanted to learn with the In-Memory Lookup for aligning the final item or badge to the score for that item or badge, and I feel like I understand that better now too.
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