diff --git a/2023/day3/Cargo.lock b/2023/day3/Cargo.lock
index 4104d70..8a43e04 100644
--- a/2023/day3/Cargo.lock
+++ b/2023/day3/Cargo.lock
@@ -2,6 +2,60 @@
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
 version = 3
 
+[[package]]
+name = "aho-corasick"
+version = "1.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8e60d3430d3a69478ad0993f19238d2df97c507009a52b3c10addcd7f6bcb916"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cute"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "45e700c2d1c3feea9b695e79b2dfeeb93040556a58c556fae23f71b1e6b449fd"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "day3"
 version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "cute",
+ "regex",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "memchr"
+version = "2.7.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "78ca9ab1a0babb1e7d5695e3530886289c18cf2f87ec19a575a0abdce112e3a3"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "regex"
+version = "1.10.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4219d74c6b67a3654a9fbebc4b419e22126d13d2f3c4a07ee0cb61ff79a79619"
+dependencies = [
+ "aho-corasick",
+ "memchr",
+ "regex-automata",
+ "regex-syntax",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "regex-automata"
+version = "0.4.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "38caf58cc5ef2fed281f89292ef23f6365465ed9a41b7a7754eb4e26496c92df"
+dependencies = [
+ "aho-corasick",
+ "memchr",
+ "regex-syntax",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "regex-syntax"
+version = "0.8.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7a66a03ae7c801facd77a29370b4faec201768915ac14a721ba36f20bc9c209b"
diff --git a/2023/day3/Cargo.toml b/2023/day3/Cargo.toml
index 6b20f5c..93c7318 100644
--- a/2023/day3/Cargo.toml
+++ b/2023/day3/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
+cute = "0.3.0"
+regex = "1.10.6"
diff --git a/2023/day3/src/main.rs b/2023/day3/src/main.rs
index d2839fd..6f0bbcb 100644
--- a/2023/day3/src/main.rs
+++ b/2023/day3/src/main.rs
@@ -1,44 +1,39 @@
-use std::{fs::File, io::{self, BufRead}, path::Path, process::exit};
-#[derive(Debug)]
-struct Coord{
-    line_index: usize,
-    char_index: usize,
-}
-
+use core::num;
+use regex::Regex;
+use std::{
+    collections::HashMap,
+    fs::File,
+    io::{self, BufRead},
+    path::Path,
+    process::exit,
+};
+#[macro_use(c)]
+extern crate cute;
 fn main() {
-    let symbol_ignore_list = ".123456789";
-    let mut result = 0;
-    // symbol_array is a list of a list of coords.
-    // each list this array represents a line
-    // inside the line is the list of the coords of each symbol 
-    let mut symbol_array: Vec<Vec<Coord>> = Vec::new();
+    let ignore_list = "01234566789.";
     // File hosts.txt must exist in the current path
     if let Ok(lines) = read_lines("./input") {
         // Consumes the iterator, returns an (Optional) String
-        let lines_array = lines.flatten().collect::<Vec<String>>();
-        // collect a list of all symbols
-        for line_index in 0..lines_array.len(){
-            let mut line_symbol_array: Vec<Coord> = Vec::new();
-            for char_index in 0..lines_array[line_index].len(){
-                let cur_char = lines_array[line_index].chars().collect::<Vec<char>>()[char_index];
-                if !symbol_ignore_list.contains(cur_char){
-                    let c = Coord{line_index:line_index,char_index:char_index};
-                    line_symbol_array.push(c);
-                }
-            }
-            symbol_array.push(line_symbol_array);
-        }
+        let lines_array: Vec<String> = lines.flatten().collect::<Vec<String>>();
 
-        for line_index in 0..lines_array.len(){
-            for char_index in 0..lines_array[line_index].len(){
+        let mut symbols: HashMap<(i32, i32), Vec<i32>> = c! {key => Vec::new(), for key in c![(line_index as i32, char_index as i32), for char_index in 0..lines_array[line_index].len(), for line_index in 0..lines_array.len()]};
+        println!("{symbols:?}");
+        exit(0);
+        for (line_index, line) in lines_array.iter().enumerate() {
+            let digit_regex = Regex::new(r"\d+").unwrap();
+            for finding in digit_regex.find_iter(line) {
+                println!("{}", finding.start());
+            }
         }
     }
 }
 
 // The output is wrapped in a Result to allow matching on errors.
-// Returns an Iterator to the Reader of the lines of the file.
+// Returns an Iterator to the Reader of the lines of the file.result
 fn read_lines<P>(filename: P) -> io::Result<io::Lines<io::BufReader<File>>>
-where P: AsRef<Path>, {
+where
+    P: AsRef<Path>,
+{
     let file = File::open(filename)?;
     Ok(io::BufReader::new(file).lines())
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}