diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1040fc5..3b8b0b5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,4 +5,7 @@ bin/
 obj/
 .vscode/
 *.sln
-*.csproj
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+*.csproj
+*.so
+workingFile.txt
+database.db
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diff --git a/2024/day3/run.sh b/2024/day3/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9b80a63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2024/day3/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+rm database.db
+cp input.txt workingFile.txt
+sqlite3 < solution.sql
diff --git a/2024/day3/solution.sql b/2024/day3/solution.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc768da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2024/day3/solution.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+.open database.db
+.load ./sqlean
+
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS RESULTS (result number);
+INSERT INTO results SELECT sum(regexp_capture(readfile('workingFile.txt'), 'mul\(([0-9]+),([0-9]+)\)', 1) * regexp_capture(readfile('workingFile.txt'), 'mul\(([0-9]+),([0-9]+)\)', 2));
+
+SELECT fileio_write('workingFile.txt', text_replace(readfile('workingFile.txt'), regexp_substr(readfile('workingFile.txt'), 'mul\(([0-9]+),([0-9]+)\)'), ''));
+
+SELECT 'answer (when 0 shows above):';
+SELECT sum(result) FROM results;
+
+.shell sqlite3 < solution.sql
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