# 2023 Day 19: Aplenty

**URL:** https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/2023-day-19-aplenty/603
**Category:** Advent of Code
**Tags:** spoilers
**Created:** [December 19, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/2023-day-19-aplenty/603 "2023-12-19T20:31:04Z")
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### Author: ![cantanima](https://forum.ada-lang.io/user_avatar/forum.ada-lang.io/cantanima/32/121_2.png) [@cantanima](https://forum.ada-lang.io/u/cantanima)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/2023-day-19-aplenty/603/8 "2024-01-02T14:08:17Z")

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To start, my input features:

```
3342:A

```

Can’t use Ada’s `Integer_IO` package to read `3342` because the `:` raises a data error. This stung someone [last year](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/2022-day-11-monkey-in-the-middle/245), too.

I had other issues, but I can’t remember them all.

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