10. Regular Expression Matching
Given an input string (s) and a pattern §, implement regular expression matching with support for ‘.’ and ‘*’ where:
- ‘.’ Matches any single character.
- ‘*’ Matches zero or more of the preceding element.
The matching should cover the entire input string (not partial).
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 preceding 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
Solution
C++
class Solution {
public:
bool isMatch(string s, string p) {
int m = s.size(), n = p.size();
if(n && p[0]=='*') return false;
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 (p[j - 1] == '*') {
dp[i][j] = dp[i][j - 2] || (i && dp[i - 1][j] && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 2] || p[j - 2] == '.'));
} else {
dp[i][j] = i && dp[i - 1][j - 1] && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 1] || p[j - 1] == '.');
}
}
}
return dp[m][n];
}
};
Explanation
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