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author Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org>
date Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:51:44 -0500
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--- Day 9: Stream Processing ---

A large stream blocks your path. According to the locals, it's not
safe to cross the stream at the moment because it's full of garbage.
You look down at the stream; rather than water, you discover that it's
a stream of characters.

You sit for a while and record part of the stream (your puzzle input).
The characters represent groups - sequences that begin with { and end
with }. Within a group, there are zero or more other things, separated
by commas: either another group or garbage. Since groups can contain
other groups, a } only closes the most-recently-opened unclosed group
- that is, they are nestable. Your puzzle input represents a single,
large group which itself contains many smaller ones.

Sometimes, instead of a group, you will find garbage. Garbage begins
with < and ends with >. Between those angle brackets, almost any
character can appear, including { and }. Within garbage, < has no
special meaning.

In a futile attempt to clean up the garbage, some program has canceled
some of the characters within it using !: inside garbage, any
character that comes after ! should be ignored, including <, >, and
even another !.

You don't see any characters that deviate from these rules. Outside
garbage, you only find well-formed groups, and garbage always
terminates according to the rules above.

Here are some self-contained pieces of garbage:

    <>, empty garbage.

    <random characters>, garbage containing random characters.

    <<<<>, because the extra < are ignored.

    <{!>}>, because the first > is canceled.

    <!!>, because the second ! is canceled, allowing the > to
    terminate the garbage.

    <!!!>>, because the second ! and the first > are canceled.

    <{o"i!a,<{i<a>, which ends at the first >.

Here are some examples of whole streams and the number of groups they contain:

    {}, 1 group.

    {{{}}}, 3 groups.

    {{},{}}, also 3 groups.

    {{{},{},{{}}}}, 6 groups.

    {<{},{},{{}}>}, 1 group (which itself contains garbage).

    {<a>,<a>,<a>,<a>}, 1 group.

    {{<a>},{<a>},{<a>},{<a>}}, 5 groups.

    {{<!>},{<!>},{<!>},{<a>}}, 2 groups (since all but the last > are
    canceled).


Your goal is to find the total score for all groups in your input.
Each group is assigned a score which is one more than the score of the
group that immediately contains it. (The outermost group gets a score
of 1.)

    {}, score of 1.

    {{{}}}, score of 1 + 2 + 3 = 6.

    {{},{}}, score of 1 + 2 + 2 = 5.

    {{{},{},{{}}}}, score of 1 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 4 = 16.

    {<a>,<a>,<a>,<a>}, score of 1.

    {{<ab>},{<ab>},{<ab>},{<ab>}}, score of 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 9.

    {{<!!>},{<!!>},{<!!>},{<!!>}}, score of 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 9.

    {{<a!>},{<a!>},{<a!>},{<ab>}}, score of 1 + 2 = 3.

What is the total score for all groups in your input?

Your puzzle answer was 12803.

--- Part Two ---

Now, you're ready to remove the garbage.

To prove you've removed it, you need to count all of the characters
within the garbage. The leading and trailing < and > don't count, nor
do any canceled characters or the ! doing the canceling.

    <>, 0 characters.

    <random characters>, 17 characters.

    <<<<>, 3 characters.

    <{!>}>, 2 characters.

    <!!>, 0 characters.

    <!!!>>, 0 characters.

    <{o"i!a,<{i<a>, 10 characters.

How many non-canceled characters are within the garbage in your puzzle
input?

Your puzzle answer was 6425.

Both parts of this puzzle are complete! They provide two gold stars: **