/// <summary>
/// The main method that is called outside this class that will solve the puzzle
/// and return the answer
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The answer to the puzzle</returns>
public int solvePuzzle()
{
// load the data from the PuzzleData.txt
string puzzleData = this.LoadPuzzleDataIntoMemory();
// create an instance of bagParser which will parse the puzzleData text
Bags.BagParser bagParser = new Bags.BagParser();
// parze the puzzle data text
System.Collections.Hashtable bags = bagParser.parseBagText(puzzleData);
// find the "shiny gold" bag
Bags.Bag aBag = (Bags.Bag)bags["shiny gold"];
// count how many unique parent bags the "shiny gold" bag has
this.findParentBags(aBag);
// return the unique number of parent bags the "shiny gold" bag has
return(this._uniqueParentBags.Count);
}
/// <summary>
/// The main method that is called outside this class that will solve the puzzle
/// and return the answer
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The answer to the puzzle</returns>
public int solvePuzzle()
{
// load the data from the PuzzleData.txt
string puzzleData = this.LoadPuzzleDataIntoMemory();
// create an instance of bagParser which will parse the puzzleData text
Bags.BagParser bagParser = new Bags.BagParser();
// parze the puzzle data text
System.Collections.Hashtable bags = bagParser.parseBagText(puzzleData);
// find the "shiny gold" bag
Bags.Bag aBag = (Bags.Bag)bags["shiny gold"];
int NoParentBags = 1;
// count the number of child bags within aBag
int answer = this.FindAllChildBags_Test(aBag, NoParentBags);
return(answer);
}
