leetcode Regular Expression Matching

Description:

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

Solution:

1.recursion

class Solution {
public:
    bool isMatch(string s, string p) {
        if (p.empty()) return s.empty();
        if(p[1] != '*') {
            if (p[0] == s[0] || p[0] == '.' && !s.empty())
                return isMatch(s.substr(1), p.substr(1));
            else
                return false;
        } else { //next char is '*'
            string temp = s;
            while(p[0] == temp[0] || p[0] == '.' && !temp.empty()) {
                if ( isMatch(temp, p.substr(2)) )
                    return true;
                temp = temp.substr(1);
            }
            return isMatch(temp, p.substr(2));
        }
    }
};

2.DP

状态方程:（https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/17852/9-lines-16ms-c-dp-solutions-with-explanations）

1.  P[i][j] = P[i - 1][j - 1], if p[j - 1] != '*' && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 1] || p[j - 1] == '.');
2.  P[i][j] = P[i][j - 2], if p[j - 1] == '*' and the pattern repeats for 0 times;
3.  P[i][j] = P[i - 1][j] && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 2] || p[j - 2] == '.'), if p[j - 1] == '*' and the pattern repeats for at least 1 times.

class Solution {
public:
    bool isMatch(string s, string p) {
        int m = s.size(), n = p.size();
        vector<vector<bool>> dp(m + 1, vector<bool>(n + 1, false));
        dp[0][0] = true;
        for (int i = 0; i <= m; ++i) {
            for (int j = 1; j <= n; ++j) {
                if (j > 1 && p[j - 1] == '*') {
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i][j - 2] || (i > 0 && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 2] || p[j - 2] == '.') && dp[i - 1][j]);
                } else {
                    dp[i][j] = i > 0 && dp[i - 1][j - 1] && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 1] || p[j - 1] == '.');
                }
            }
        }
        return dp[m][n];
    }
};