LeetCode 10. Regular Expression Matching

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

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 正则字符串匹配问题主要是考虑第二个字符是否为‘*’，如果不是，那就先判断第一个字符是否匹配，然后调用递归函数进行子串的判断；如果第二个字符是‘*’，那么会复杂些，首先考虑‘*’之前的字符出现0次的情况，其次再考虑至少出现一次的情况，也就是进行递归调用，s去掉第一个字符，p不能去掉第一个字符，因为‘*’之前的字符可以有无限个

代码如下：

class Solution {
public:
    bool isMatch(string s, string p) {
        if (p.empty()) return s.empty();
        if (p.size() > 1 && p[1] == '*') {
            return isMatch(s, p.substr(2)) || (!s.empty() && (s[0] == p[0] || p[0] == '.') && isMatch(s.substr(1), p));
        } else {
            return !s.empty() && (s[0] == p[0] || p[0] == '.') && isMatch(s.substr(1), p.substr(1));
        }
    }

还有一种是动态规划算法，用空间换时间，讲真，这部分我不是特别理解。定义一个二维的DP数组，其中dp[i][j]表示s[0,i)和p[0,j)是否match，然后有下面三种情况(下面部分摘自这个帖子)：

1.  P[i][j] = P[i - 1][j - 1], if p[j - 1] != '*' && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 1] || p[j - 1] == '.');
2.  P[i][j] = P[i][j - 2], if p[j - 1] == '*' and the pattern repeats for 0 times;
3.  P[i][j] = P[i - 1][j] && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 2] || p[j - 2] == '.'), if p[j - 1] == '*' and the pattern repeats for at least 1 times.

class Solution {
public:
    bool isMatch(string s, string p) {
        int m = s.size(), n = p.size();
        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 (j > 1 && p[j - 1] == '*') {
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i][j - 2] || (i > 0 && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 2] || p[j - 2] == '.') && dp[i - 1][j]);
                } else {
                    dp[i][j] = i > 0 && dp[i - 1][j - 1] && (s[i - 1] == p[j - 1] || p[j - 1] == '.');
                }
            }
        }
        return dp[m][n];
    }
};