input = open("./test.txt", "r") total = 0 for line in input: trimmedLine = line.replace("\n", "") elves = trimmedLine.split(",") elf1 = elves[0].split("-") elf1 = [int(elf1[0]), int(elf1[1])] elf2 = elves[1].split("-") elf2 = [int(elf2[0]), int(elf2[1])] if (elf1[0] <= elf2[0] and elf1[1] >= elf2[1]): total += 1 elif (elf2[0] <= elf1[0] and elf2[1] >= elf1[1]): total += 1 elif(elf1[0] >= elf2[0] or elf) print(total)