Given an input string (s
) and a pattern (p
), 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).
Note:
s
could be empty and contains only lowercase lettersa-z
.p
could be empty and contains only lowercase lettersa-z
, and characters like.
or*
.
Example 1:
Input: s = "aa" p = "a" Output: false Explanation: "a" does not match the entire string "aa".
Example 2:
Input: s = "aa" p = "a*" Output: true Explanation: '*' means zero or more of the precedeng element, 'a'. Therefore, by repeating 'a' once, it becomes "aa".
Example 3:
Input: s = "ab" p = ".*" Output: true Explanation: ".*" means "zero or more (*) of any character (.)".
Example 4:
Input: s = "aab" p = "c*a*b" Output: true Explanation: c can be repeated 0 times, a can be repeated 1 time. Therefore it matches "aab".
Example 5:
Input: s = "mississippi" p = "mis*is*p*." Output: false
思路:
当模式中的第二个字符不是“*”时:
1、如果字符串第一个字符和模式中的第一个字符相匹配,那么字符串和模式都后移一个字符,然后匹配剩余的。
2、如果 字符串第一个字符和模式中的第一个字符相不匹配,直接返回false。
而当模式中的第二个字符是“*”时:
如果字符串第一个字符跟模式第一个字符不匹配,则模式后移2个字符,继续匹配。如果字符串第一个字符跟模式第一个字符匹配,可以有3种匹配方式:
1、模式后移2字符,相当于x*被忽略;
2、字符串后移1字符,模式后移2字符;
3、字符串后移1字符,模式不变,即继续匹配字符下一位,因为*可以匹配多位;
class Solution(object):
def isMatch(self, s, p):
"""
:type s: str
:type p: str
:rtype: bool
"""
if not s and not p:
return True
if not p:
return False
if len(p) > 1 and p[1] == "*":
if s and (s[0] == p[0] or p[0] == "."):
return self.isMatch(s, p[2:]) or self.isMatch(s[1:],p[2:]) or self.isMatch(s[1:], p)
else:
return self.isMatch(s, p[2:])
if s and (p[0] == "." or p[0] == s[0]):
return self.isMatch(s[1:], p[1:])
return False