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+Notes, thoughts, or questions that arose as I implemented the solutions. Hopefully I am able to go back and answer these questions as I keep learning!
+
+# Things I like
+
+* [Continue expressions](https://zig-by-example.com/while)
+
+# Things that I've found missing from this language
+
+I mean, Jesus Christ, right now it seems even worse than GoLang.
+
+* [String concatenation](https://old.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/bfcsul/concatenating_zig_strings/)
+* [String equality](https://nofmal.github.io/zig-with-example/string-handling/#string-equal)
+
+# Questions
+
+## (From Ziglings)
+
+[Problem 40](https://codeberg.org/ziglings/exercises/src/commit/8da60edb82b25ac913033b2f0edb63eea212c0d0/exercises/040_pointers2.zig) says "_You can always make a const pointer to a mutable value (var), but you cannot make a var pointer to an immutable value (const)._" - which, sure, fair enough (I mean, not really, but I'm not going to argue with it...), but that's not what's presented in the problem - the original code is:
+
+```
+    const a: u8 = 12;
+    const b: *u8 = &a; // fix this!
+```
+
+which is a constant pointer to a _constant_ value - which shouldn't be an issue?
+
+## What's the idiomatic way to run Zig tests?
+
+I've tried - using references like [this](https://zig.guide/build-system/zig-build), [this](https://old.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/y65qa6/how_to_test_every_file_in_a_simple_zig_project/), and [this](https://www.openmymind.net/Using-A-Custom-Test-Runner-In-Zig/) - to set up `build.zig` so that I could run `zig build test` and thus run every test in my files, but that didn't work:
+
+```zig
+// build.zig
+const std = @import("std");
+
+pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
+    const main_tests = b.addTest(.{ .root_source_file = b.path("main.zig") });
+    const build_mode = b.standardReleaseOptions();
+    main_tests.setBuildMode(build_mode);
+
+    const test_step = b.step("test", "Run library tests");
+    test_step.dependOn(&main_tests.step);
+}
+
+// main.zig
+pub const one = @import("solutions/01.zig");
+
+test {
+    @import("std").testing.refAllDecls(@This());
+}
+```
+
+As-written, `zig build test` gives:
+
+```
+/Users/scubbo/Code/advent-of-code-2024/build.zig:19:25: error: no field or member function named 'standardReleaseOptions' in 'Build'
+    const build_mode = b.standardReleaseOptions();
+```
+
+With that line (and the following one deleted), `zig build test` completes silently, even with a failing test.
+
+And this setup _still_ isn't great, because it's necessary to manually import every file to `main.zig`'s imports.
+
+Hence the `test.sh` workaround script. It's not great, because it will error-out on the first failure (rather than accumulating failures from all files) - but it does the job!
+
+Refer to [here](https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Zig-Test) for more info - which I only found after writing that hacky script.
+
+## Why can't a string-literal be passed to a function that accepts a `[]8`?
+
+That is, why is this illegal?
+
+```
+fn doIt(string: []u8) []u8 {
+    return "prefix" + string;
+}
+
+const expect = @import("std").testing.expect;
+
+test {
+    expect(std.mem.eql(u8, doIt("foo"), "prefixfoo"))
+}
+```
+
+I can fix it by changing the type signature to accept `[]const u8`, but (I think?) that then means that I can't call the function with non-const-length strings - including strings read from files.
+
+[This](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72736997/how-to-pass-a-c-string-into-a-zig-function-expecting-a-zig-string) link refers to `[]const u8` as a "Zig-style string-slice", but also refers to `[*c]const u8` as a "c_string", so...:shrug:?
diff --git a/solutions/01.zig b/solutions/01.zig
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--- a/solutions/01.zig
+++ b/solutions/01.zig
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 const std = @import("std");
 const print = std.debug.print;
+const util = @import("util.zig");
 
-pub fn main() !void {
+pub fn main() !u32 {
     var arr1: [1000]u32 = undefined;
     var arr2: [1000]u32 = undefined;
 
@@ -11,7 +12,9 @@ pub fn main() !void {
     defer _ = gpa.deinit();
     const allocator = gpa.allocator();
 
-    const file = try std.fs.cwd().openFile("../inputs/01/real.txt", .{});
+    const path = try util.getInputFile("01", true);
+    std.debug.print("Path is {s}\n", .{path});
+    const file = try std.fs.cwd().openFile(path, .{});
     defer file.close();
 
     // Wrap the file reader in a buffered reader.
@@ -61,6 +64,9 @@ pub fn main() !void {
         }
     }
     try stdout.print("{}", .{sum});
+    // Only used for testing - but later we'll have this return to an actual higher-level `main` function and have
+    // _that_ do printing.
+    return sum;
 }
 
 fn parseLineToNumbers(line: []u8) struct { first: u32, second: u32 } {
@@ -89,3 +95,12 @@ fn parseLineToNumbers(line: []u8) struct { first: u32, second: u32 } {
     }
     return .{ .first = first / 10, .second = second / 10 };
 }
+
+const expect = std.testing.expect;
+
+test {
+    const filePath = try util.getInputFile("01", true);
+    const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer();
+    try stdout.print("{s}\n\n", .{filePath});
+    try expect(try main() == 11);
+}
diff --git a/solutions/util.zig b/solutions/util.zig
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+++ b/solutions/util.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// Unfortunately I have to put this in `solutions/` even though it more-properly belongs at a higher-level,
+// because non-sibling imports require setting up a `build.zig` (https://old.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/ra5qeo/import_of_file_outside_package_path/)
+// and that seems awful.
+
+const std = @import("std");
+
+pub fn getInputFile(problemNumber: []const u8, isTestCase: bool) ![]u8 {
+    return concatString("inputs/", try concatString(problemNumber, try concatString("/", try concatString(if (isTestCase) "test" else "real", ".txt"))));
+}
+
+fn concatString(a: []const u8, b: []const u8) ![]u8 {
+    var gpa = std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator(.{}){};
+    const allocator = gpa.allocator();
+    // I don't recall where the below came from, but it causes a `[gpa] (err): memory address 0x10383f000 leaked:` when
+    // kept in, so...dropping it! :P
+    //
+    // defer {
+    //     const deinit_status = gpa.deinit();
+    //     //fail test; can't try in defer as defer is executed after we return
+    //     if (deinit_status == .leak) expect(false) catch @panic("TEST FAIL");
+    // }
+
+    return concat(u8, allocator, a, b);
+}
+
+// https://www.openmymind.net/Zigs-memcpy-copyForwards-and-copyBackwards/
+fn concat(comptime T: type, allocator: std.mem.Allocator, arr1: []const T, arr2: []const T) ![]T {
+    var combined = try allocator.alloc(T, arr1.len + arr2.len);
+    @memcpy(combined[0..arr1.len], arr1);
+    @memcpy(combined[arr1.len..], arr2);
+    return combined;
+}
+
+const expect = @import("std").testing.expect;
+
+test {
+    const result = try concatString("abc", "def");
+    try expect(std.mem.eql(u8, result, "abcdef"));
+}
+
+test "testGetInputFile" {
+    const result = try getInputFile("01", true);
+    try expect(std.mem.eql(u8, result, "inputs/01/test.txt"));
+
+    const result1 = try getInputFile("42", false);
+    try expect(std.mem.eql(u8, result1, "inputs/42/real.txt"));
+}
diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+find . -name "*.zig" -exec sh -c "echo \"Testing {}\"; zig test {}" \;