That’s also possible, though I’ve had cases where putting a ? before a function changed the output to what I expected instead of doing something else.
This only happened in the online pad and seems to have been fixed by reloading the tab but I’ve taken to call any such behavior a bug now :D
Especially in this case because ⋕"1019" should at least not throw a “invalid float literal” error.

Though if you ever find another explanation I’d be happy to read it ^^

(I’m going to ‘investigate’ some more because I had this error a few times but I don’t remember the circumstances and solution anymore)

Great explanation :D
I understand what I called black magic before now. I did wonder what something other than a concatenation would do in that place but didn’t consider that it might be just that because it looked so complicated.

I wasn’t able to get it running with ⋕$"__" either, though I’d assume it’s a bug caused by how the numbers get passed around or something. The day uiua has a stable release will be glorious

Thanks to your solution I learned more about how to use reduce :D

My solution did work for the example input but not for the actual one. When I went here and saw this tiny code block and you saying

This turned out to be reasonably easy

I was quite taken aback. And it’s so much better performance-wise too :D (well, until part 2 comes along in my case. Whatever this black magic is you used there is too high for my fried brain atm)

Uiua

Credits to @mykl@lemmy.world for the approach of using reduce and also how to split the input by multiple characters.
I can happily say that I learned quite a bit today, even though the first part made me frustrated enough that I went searching for other approaches ^^

Part two just needed a simple modification. Changing how the input is parsed and passed to the adapted function took longer than changing the function itself actually.

Run with example input here

PartOne ← (
  &rs ∞ &fo "input-7.txt"
  ⊜□≠@\n.
  ≡◇(⊜□≠@:.)
  ≡⍜⊡⋕0
  ≡⍜(°□⊡1)(⊜⋕≠@ .)
  ⟜(⊡0⍉)

  # own attempt, produces a too low number
  # ≡(:∩°□°⊟
  #   ⍣(⍤.◡⍣(1⍤.(≤/×)⍤.(≥/+),,)0
  #     ⊙¤⋯⇡ⁿ:2-1⊸⧻
  #     ⊞(⍥(⟜⍜(⊙(↙2))(⨬+×⊙°⊟⊡0)
  #         ↘1
  #       )⧻.
  #       ⍤.=0⧻.
  #     )
  #     ∈♭◌
  #   )0)

  # reduce approach found on the programming.dev AoC community by mykl@lemmy.world
  ≡(◇(∈/(◴♭[⊃(+|×)]))⊡0:°⊂)
  °□/+▽
)

PartTwo ← (
  &rs ∞ &fo "input-7.txt"
  ⊜(□⊜⋕¬∈": ".)≠@\n.
  ⟜≡◇⊢
  ≡◇(∈/(◴♭[≡⊃⊃(+|×|⋕$"__")]):°⊂)
  °□/+▽
)

&p "Day 7:"
&pf "Part 1: "
&p PartOne
&pf "Part 2: "
&p PartTwo