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:
public class Solution {
public boolean isMatch(String s, String p) {
if(p.length()==0) return s.length()==0;
if(p.length()==1 || p.charAt(1)!='*'){
if(!s.isEmpty() && (s.charAt(0)==p.charAt(0) || p.charAt(0)=='.'))
return isMatch(s.substring(1), p.substring(1));
else
return false;
}
while(!s.isEmpty() && (s.charAt(0)==p.charAt(0) || p.charAt(0)=='.')){
if(isMatch(s, p.substring(2))) return true;
s = s.substring(1);
}
return isMatch(s, p.substring(2));
}
}