-- requires cabal install --lib split Unique module Main (main) where import Control.Monad (void, when) import Data.List (intersect, foldl') import Data.List.Split (splitOn) import System.Exit (die) exampleExpectedOutput = 6 parseInput :: String -> IO [String] parseInput filename = do input <- readFile filename return $ map (foldl' intersect ['a'..'z'] . lines) $ splitOn "\n\n" input compute :: [String] -> Int compute = sum . map length main :: IO () main = do example <- parseInput "example" let exampleOutput = compute example when (exampleOutput /= exampleExpectedOutput) (die $ "example failed: got " ++ show exampleOutput ++ " instead of " ++ show exampleExpectedOutput) input <- parseInput "input" print $ compute input