<?php $passwords = explode("\n", file_get_contents('input.txt')); $number_of_good_passwords = 0; foreach ($passwords as $password) { $parts = explode(' ', $password); if (count($parts) === 3) { [$min, $max] = explode('-', $parts[0]); $letter = $parts[1][0]; $word = $parts[2]; if ($word[$min-1] === $letter xor $word[$max-1] === $letter) { $number_of_good_passwords++; } } } echo $number_of_good_passwords; exit(0);