Problem
10. Regular Expression Matching
Question
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") → false
isMatch("aa","aa") → true
isMatch("aaa","aa") → false
isMatch("aa", "a*") → true
isMatch("aa", ".*") → true
isMatch("ab", ".*") → true
isMatch("aab", "c*a*b") → true
Code
class Solution {
public:
bool isMatch(string s, string p) {
if (p.size() == 0) return s.size() == 0;
bool firstmatch = (!s.empty()) && ((s[0] == p[0]) || p[0] == '.');
if (p.size() > 1 && p[1] == '*') {
return (isMatch(s, p.substr(2)) || firstmatch && isMatch(s.substr(1), p));
}
else
return firstmatch && isMatch(s.substr(1), p.substr(1));
}
};