add aoc 2025 day 2 solution

2025/2/main.go

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+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+type Range struct {
+	From int
+	To int
+}
+
+func main() {
+	// iterate over all IDs
+	var invalidsum int = 0
+	ranges := Decode("input.txt")
+
+	for _, i := range ranges {
+		fmt.Printf("\niterating over range: %d to %d\n", i.From, i.To)
+
+	  // +1 makes the range inclusive
+		for x := range i.To-i.From+1 {
+			// to get the "real" number as we took it away initially
+			num := x+i.From
+
+			// extract half of the number
+			numstring := strconv.Itoa(num)
+			mid := len(numstring)/2
+
+			// if both halves are the same, it is an invalid number
+			if numstring[:mid] == numstring[mid:] {
+				fmt.Printf("found invalid id %d\n", num)
+				invalidsum = invalidsum + num
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	fmt.Println("sum of invalid ids:", invalidsum)
+}
+
+func Decode(filename string) []Range {
+	f, err := os.ReadFile(filename)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	fstring := string(f)
+	fromrangeregex := regexp.MustCompile("^[0-9]*")
+	torangeregex := regexp.MustCompile("[0-9]*$")
+
+	var ranges []Range
+
+	for _, i := range strings.Split(fstring, ",") {
+		// get range from IDs to iterate over
+		fromrangestr := fromrangeregex.FindAllString(i, 1)
+		torangestr := torangeregex.FindAllString(i, 1)
+
+		var a Range
+
+		fromrange, _ := strconv.Atoi(fromrangestr[0])
+		torange, _ := strconv.Atoi(torangestr[0])
+
+		a.From = fromrange
+		a.To = torange
+
+		fmt.Printf("\nextracted ranges to iterate over: %d to %d\n", fromrange, torange)
+		ranges = append(ranges, a)
+	}
+
+	return ranges
+}