2022 Day 11 Complete

helpers/helpers.go

@@ -143,6 +143,16 @@ func StdinToCoordMap() CoordByteMap {
 	return StringSliceToCoordByteMap(StdinToStringSlice())
 }
 
+// Atof parses a float out of a string
+func Atof(i string) float64 {
+	var ret float64
+	var err error
+	if ret, err = strconv.ParseFloat(i, 64); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Invalid Atof: %s\n%v", i, err)
+	}
+	return ret
+}
+
 // Atoi is basically redundant
 func Atoi(i string) int {
 	var ret int
@@ -158,6 +168,16 @@ func Itoa(i int) string {
 	return strconv.Itoa(i)
 }
 
+// Atoui is the same as Atoi, but with unsigned ints
+func Atoui(i string) uint64 {
+	var ret uint64
+	var err error
+	if ret, err = strconv.ParseUint(i, 10, 64); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Invalid Atoi: %s\n%v", i, err)
+	}
+	return ret
+}
+
 // FileToStringSlice takes a file and returns it as a slice of strings
 func FileToStringSlice(fn string) []string {
 	return strings.Split(string(FileToBytes(fn)), "\n")