Regular Expression Matching

public class Solution {
    public boolean isMatch(String s, String p) {
        if(p.length() == 0) {
            return s.length() == 0;
        }
        if(p.length() == 1) {
            return s.length() == 1 && (p.charAt(0) == '.' || s.equals(p));
        }
        // p.length() > 1
        if(p.charAt(1) != '*') {
            return s.length() > 0 && (p.charAt(0) == '.' || s.charAt(0) == p.charAt(0))
                    && isMatch(s.substring(1, s.length()), p.substring(1, p.length()));
        } else {
            int i = 0;
            for( ; i < s.length() && (p.charAt(0) == '.' || s.charAt(i) == p.charAt(0)); i++) {
                if(isMatch(s.substring(i, s.length()), p.substring(2, p.length()))) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return isMatch(s.substring(i, s.length()), p.substring(2, p.length()));
        }
    }
}

Time: O(n^2)

Space: O(n^2)