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<article class="day-desc"><h2>--- Day 8: Matchsticks ---</h2><p>Space on the sleigh is limited this year, and so Santa will be bringing his list as a digital copy. He needs to know how much space it will take up when stored.</p>
<p>It is common in many programming languages to provide a way to <span title="It is common for many programmers to try to escape from string escaping. No such luck here.">escape</span> special characters in strings. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_sequences_in_C">C</a>, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String">JavaScript</a>, <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators">Perl</a>, <a href="https://docs.python.org/2.0/ref/strings.html">Python</a>, and even <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.double">PHP</a> handle special characters in very similar ways.</p>
<p>However, it is important to realize the difference between the number of characters <em>in the code representation of the string literal</em> and the number of characters <em>in the in-memory string itself</em>.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
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<li><code>""</code> is <code>2</code> characters of code (the two double quotes), but the string contains zero characters.</li>
<li><code>"abc"</code> is <code>5</code> characters of code, but <code>3</code> characters in the string data.</li>
<li><code>"aaa\"aaa"</code> is <code>10</code> characters of code, but the string itself contains six "a" characters and a single, escaped quote character, for a total of <code>7</code> characters in the string data.</li>
<li><code>"\x27"</code> is <code>6</code> characters of code, but the string itself contains just one - an apostrophe (<code>'</code>), escaped using hexadecimal notation.</li>
</ul>
<p>Santa's list is a file that contains many double-quoted string literals, one on each line. The only escape sequences used are <code>\\</code> (which represents a single backslash), <code>\"</code> (which represents a lone double-quote character), and <code>\x</code> plus two hexadecimal characters (which represents a single character with that ASCII code).</p>
<p>Disregarding the whitespace in the file, what is <em>the number of characters of code for string literals</em> minus <em>the number of characters in memory for the values of the strings</em> in total for the entire file?</p>
<p>For example, given the four strings above, the total number of characters of string code (<code>2 + 5 + 10 + 6 = 23</code>) minus the total number of characters in memory for string values (<code>0 + 3 + 7 + 1 = 11</code>) is <code>23 - 11 = 12</code>.</p>
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<p>Your puzzle answer was <code>1342</code>.</p><article class="day-desc"><h2 id="part2">--- Part Two ---</h2><p>Now, let's go the other way. In addition to finding the number of characters of code, you should now <em>encode each code representation as a new string</em> and find the number of characters of the new encoded representation, including the surrounding double quotes.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>""</code> encodes to <code>"\"\""</code>, an increase from <code>2</code> characters to <code>6</code>.</li>
<li><code>"abc"</code> encodes to <code>"\"abc\""</code>, an increase from <code>5</code> characters to <code>9</code>.</li>
<li><code>"aaa\"aaa"</code> encodes to <code>"\"aaa\\\"aaa\""</code>, an increase from <code>10</code> characters to <code>16</code>.</li>
<li><code>"\x27"</code> encodes to <code>"\"\\x27\""</code>, an increase from <code>6</code> characters to <code>11</code>.</li>
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<p>Your task is to find <em>the total number of characters to represent the newly encoded strings</em> minus <em>the number of characters of code in each original string literal</em>. For example, for the strings above, the total encoded length (<code>6 + 9 + 16 + 11 = 42</code>) minus the characters in the original code representation (<code>23</code>, just like in the first part of this puzzle) is <code>42 - 23 = 19</code>.</p>
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<p>Your puzzle answer was <code>2074</code>.</p><p class="day-success">Both parts of this puzzle are complete! They provide two gold stars: **</p>
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