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Today in “Idiomatic Kotlin”, we’re looking at day 4 of the Advent of Code 2020 challenges, in which we tackle a problem that feels as old as programming itself: input sanitization and validation.
Day 4. Passport processing We need to build a passport scanner that, given a batch of input text, can count how many passports are valid. You can find the complete task description at https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/4.
Like many challenges, we first inspect our input: