'?' Matches any single character.
'*' Matches any sequence of characters (including the empty sequence).
Input:
s = "aa"
p = "a"
Output: false
Explanation: "a" does not match the entire string "aa".
Input:
s = "aa"
p = "*"
Output: true
Explanation: '*' matches any sequence.
Input:
s = "cb"
p = "?a"
Output: false
Explanation: '?' matches 'c', but the second letter is 'a', which does not match 'b'.
Input:
s = "adceb"
p = "*a*b"
Output: true
Explanation: The first '*' matches the empty sequence, while the second '*' matches the substring "dce".
Input:
s = "acdcb"
p = "a*c?b"
Output: false
class Solution {
public boolean isMatch(String s, String p) {
if (s == null || p == null)
return false;
int sLen = s.length();
int pLen = p.length();
boolean[][] dp = new boolean[sLen + 1][pLen + 1];
// Base cases:
dp[0][0] = true;
for (int i = 1; i <= sLen; i++)
dp[i][0] = false;
for (int j = 1; j <= pLen; j++)
if (p.charAt(j - 1) == '*')
dp[0][j] = dp[0][j - 1];
// Recursion:
for (int i = 1; i <= sLen; i++) {
for (int j = 1; j <= pLen; j++) {
if ((s.charAt(i - 1) == p.charAt(j - 1) || p.charAt(j - 1) == '?') && dp[i - 1][j - 1])
dp[i][j] = true;
else if (p.charAt(j - 1) == '*' && (dp[i - 1][j] || dp[i][j - 1]))
dp[i][j] = true;
} // dp[i][j-1] is the case when * -> ""
// dp[i-1][j] is the case when * copies subsequence of s
}
return dp[sLen][pLen];
}
}