diff --git a/y2024/src/days/d3.rs b/y2024/src/days/d3.rs
index dd9f3d9..a7307a1 100644
--- a/y2024/src/days/d3.rs
+++ b/y2024/src/days/d3.rs
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ pub fn process_part1(input: &str) -> i32 {
 
 // Could use this regex but wouldn't know how to solve part 2
 // /mul\([0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3}\)/g
-// /don't\(\).*do\(\)/g would select anything between don't() and do()
-// not sure how to invert this and combine
+// /don't\(\).*do\(\)/g would select anything between first don't() and last do()
+// not sure how to fix, invert and combine this
 fn extract_mul_pairs(line: &str) -> Vec<(i32, i32)> {
     let reg = Regex::new(r"mul\([0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3}\)").unwrap();
     reg.find_iter(line)
@@ -25,10 +25,32 @@ fn extract_mul_pairs(line: &str) -> Vec<(i32, i32)> {
         .collect::<Vec<(i32, i32)>>()
 }
 
+fn remove_donts(line: &str) -> String {
+    let mut new_line = line.to_string();
+    loop {
+        println!("len {}", line.len());
+        let mut end_range = new_line.len() - 1;
+        if let Some(dont_idx) = new_line.find("don't()") {
+            if let Some(do_idx) = new_line.find("do()") {
+                if dont_idx < do_idx {
+                    end_range = do_idx + 4;
+                }
+            }
+            println!("dont {dont_idx} to {end_range}");
+            new_line.replace_range(dont_idx..end_range, "");
+        } else {
+            return new_line;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 pub fn process_part2(input: &str) -> i32 {
     input
         .lines()
-        .map(extract_mul_pairs)
+        .map(|line| {
+            let line = remove_donts(line);
+            extract_mul_pairs(&line)
+        })
         .map(|pairs| pairs.iter().map(|(a, b)| a * b).sum::<i32>())
         .sum()
 }