Link to original problem: 这里写链接内容
Implement wildcard pattern matching with support for ‘?’ and ‘*’.
‘?’ Matches any single character.
‘*’ Matches any sequence of characters (including the empty sequence).
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”, “*”) → true
isMatch(“aa”, “a*”) → true
isMatch(“ab”, “?*”) → true
isMatch(“aab”, “c*a*b”) → false
Related problems:
10 Regular Expression Matching 这里写链接内容
I tried the basic backtracking (recursion) method and the method which has optimization on continuous ‘*’, for this problem and get TLE twice. So I came up with the idea dealing with this problem from the tail of those two string.
public class Solution {
public boolean isMatch(String s, String p) {
if(p.length() == 0) return (s.length() == 0);
if(p.charAt(0) == '*'){
if(s.length() == 0) return isMatch(s, p.substring(1));
else return isMatch(s, p.substring(1)) || isMatch(s.substring(1), p);
}
else{
if(s.length() == 0) return false;
else if(s.charAt(0) == p.charAt(0) || p.charAt(0) == '?') return isMatch(s.substring(1), p.substring(1));
else return false;
}
}
}
This code failed on:
“aaabbbaabaaaaababaabaaabbabbbbbbbbaabababbabbbaaaaba”
“a*******b”
public class Solution {
public boolean isMatch(String s, String p) {
if(p.length() == 0) return (s.length() == 0);
if(p.charAt(0) == '*'){
if(s.length() == 0) return isMatch(s, p.substring(1));
else if(p.length() > 1 && p.charAt(1) == '*') return isMatch(s, p.substring(1));
else return isMatch(s, p.substring(1)) || isMatch(s.substring(1), p);
}
else{
if(s.length() == 0) return false;
else if(s.charAt(0) == p.charAt(0) || p.charAt(0) == '?') return isMatch(s.substring(1), p.substring(1));
else return false;
}
}
}
And this code failed on:
“babbbbaabababaabbababaababaabbaabababbaaababbababaaaaaabbabaaaabababbabbababbbaaaababbbabbbbbbbbbbaabbb”
“b**bb**a**bba*b**a*bbb**aba***babbb*aa****aabb*bbb***a”