finished part one of day 1

aoc/2022/day1/d1c1.js

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+use = "strict";
+
+const fs = require("fs");
+const inputText = fs.readFileSync("./input.txt").toString("utf-8");
+const splitInputText = inputText.split("\n");
+
+const testData = `1000
+2000
+3000
+
+4000
+
+5000
+6000
+
+7000
+8000
+9000
+
+10000
+`;
+
+const splitTestData = testData.split("\n");
+// console.log(splitInputText);
+// console.log(splitTestData);
+
+function determineHighestCarriedCalories(input) {
+    let highestTotalCalories = 0;
+    let numberOfElves = 1;
+    let elfNumber = 1;
+    let currentTotalCalories = 0;
+
+    input.forEach((line, curIndex, array) => {
+        if (line.length !== 0) {
+            currentElf = numberOfElves;
+            let num = Number.parseInt(line);
+            if (Number.isInteger(num)) {
+                // console.log(
+                //     "current Calories: " + currentTotalCalories + " plus " + num
+                // );
+                currentTotalCalories += num;
+            }
+        } else {
+            // console.log(
+            //     `Current elf ${currentElf} has ${currentTotalCalories}`
+            // );
+            numberOfElves += 1;
+            if (currentTotalCalories > highestTotalCalories) {
+                elfNumber = currentElf;
+                highestTotalCalories = currentTotalCalories;
+            }
+            currentTotalCalories = 0;
+        }
+    });
+
+    console.log(
+        `The most Calories carried by is Elf ${elfNumber} with ${highestTotalCalories} total calories`
+    );
+
+    return highestTotalCalories;
+}
+
+determineHighestCarriedCalories(splitTestData);
+determineHighestCarriedCalories(splitInputText);

aoc/2022/day1/testdata.txt

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+1000
+2000
+3000
+
+4000
+
+5000
+6000
+
+7000
+8000
+9000
+
+10000