Wildcard Matching

给出匹配字符串,使用”*“代表任意字符序列,使用”?”代表任意一个字符。给出目标字符串,判断是否匹配。
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

算法如下:

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public class Solution {
public boolean isMatch(String str, String pattern) {
int s = 0, p = 0, match = 0, starIdx = -1;
while (s < str.length()){
// advancing both pointers
if (p < pattern.length() && (pattern.charAt(p) == '?' || str.charAt(s) == pattern.charAt(p))){
s++;
p++;
}
// * found, only advancing pattern pointer
else if (p < pattern.length() && pattern.charAt(p) == '*'){
starIdx = p;
match = s;
p++;
}
// last pattern pointer was *, advancing string pointer
// 此处一直匹配到最后一处可能一致的地方,选取的是最大范围的"*",是贪婪的
else if (starIdx != -1){
p = starIdx + 1;
match++;
s = match;
}
//current pattern pointer is not star, last patter pointer was not *
//characters do not match
else return false;
}
//check for remaining characters in pattern
while (p < pattern.length() && pattern.charAt(p) == '*')
p++;
return p == pattern.length();
}
}