Parse input file.

2015/day09/answer01.c

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+/* The simplest way I can think of solving this problem (i.e., the brute force method):
+ * 1. enter all cities, with their relative distances, into an "adjacency matrix"
+ * - in this particular case, we have a fully connected (i.e., "complete") graph.
+ * - the number of *unique* possible paths are 8!/2 = 20,160
+ * 2. the cities are labeled 0 through 7. 
+ * - hence the possible paths are different ways to arrange the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
+ * 3. construct a nested for-loop (or a recursive function) to walk through each node.
+ * 4. from an arbitrary start to an arbitrary end, mark down the length of the path.
+ * !. but how do you avoid reversed paths? |01234567| = |76543210|... 
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+
+int main() {
+	FILE *file = fopen("testinput", "r");
+	if (file == NULL) {
+		perror("main: error opening file.");
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	
+	char city1[12];
+	char city2[12];
+	int dist = 0;
+	
+
+	while (fscanf(file, "%s to %s = %d\n", city1, city2, &dist) != EOF) {
+		printf("%s, %s, %d\n", city1, city2, dist);
+	}
+	fclose(file);
+	
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
+
+