每日一题-Regular Expression Matching (Java)

Regular Expression Matching (Java)

Implement regular expression matching with support for ‘.’ and ‘*’.

‘.’ Matches any single character.
‘*’ Matches zero or more of the preceding element.

The matching should cover the entire input string (not partial).

The function prototype should be:
bool isMatch(const char *s, const char *p)

Some examples:
isMatch(“aa”,“a”) return false
isMatch(“aa”,“aa”) return true
isMatch(“aaa”,“aa”) return false
isMatch(“aa”, “a*”) return true
isMatch(“aa”, “.") return true
isMatch(“ab”, ".”) return true
isMatch(“aab”, “cab”) return true

解题如下：

public boolean isMatch(String s, String p) {
        // base case
    if (p.length() == 0) {
        return s.length() == 0;
    }
        // special case
    if (p.length() == 1) {
        // if the length of s is 0, return false
        if (s.length() < 1) {
            return false;
        }
        //if the first does not match, return false
        else if ((p.charAt(0) != s.charAt(0)) && (p.charAt(0) != '.')) {
            return false;
        }
        // otherwise, compare the rest of the string of s and p.
        else {
            return isMatch(s.substring(1), p.substring(1));
        }
    }
    // case 1: when the second char of p is not '*'
    if (p.charAt(1) != '*') {
        if (s.length() < 1) {
            return false;
        }
        if ((p.charAt(0) != s.charAt(0)) && (p.charAt(0) != '.')) {
            return false;
        } else {
            return isMatch(s.substring(1), p.substring(1));
        }
    }
    // case 2: when the second char of p is '*', complex case.
    else {
    //case 2.1: a char & '*' can stand for 0 element
        if (isMatch(s, p.substring(2))) {
            return true;
        }
        //case 2.2: a char & '*' can stand for 1 or more preceding element,
        //so try every sub string
        int i = 0;
        while (i<s.length() && (s.charAt(i)==p.charAt(0) || p.charAt(0)=='.')){
            if (isMatch(s.substring(i + 1), p.substring(2))) {
                return true;
            }
            i++;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Test test = new Test();
    test.isMatch("123", "1*334");
}