import { readFile } from "fs/promises"; const fileToRead = `actual.input`; const list1 = {}; const list2 = {}; const file = await readFile(fileToRead, `utf-8`); for (const line of file.split(`\n`)) { const [ l1Add, l2Add ] = line.split(/\s+/, 2); list1[l1Add] ??= 0; list1[l1Add] += 1; list2[l2Add] ??= 0; list2[l2Add] += 1; }; let similarity = 0; for (const location in list1) { similarity += list1[location] * (location * (list2[location] ?? 0)) }; console.log(`Similarity: ${similarity}`);