The whole "literal padding" thing caused loads of confusion. Once I realised it is a problem to be ignored, it's recursion to the rescue again (full code here). Code is short (1 line I/O and readable 27-line parse function with comments).

Returning the index for the next subpacket with the value of the current subpacket really simplifies things.

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[–][deleted]3 points4 years, 1 month ago

You are so smart! Thanks for posting this! I was so stuck on how to do recursion on this. It turns out using the start index is the way to go! Thanks!

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[–]ai_prof1 point4 years, 1 month ago

It started out much clunkier - with two types of counters in the arguments to the parse function. But I thought best to post the prettier, cleaner version :). Thanks for the compliment :)

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[–]martino_vik2 points4 years ago

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This worked! Thx!

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