Code RoomWildcard pattern matching
HardPrep Room Coding #945

Wildcard pattern matching

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~30 min

Implement wildcard pattern matching where '?' matches any single character and '*' matches any sequence of characters (including the empty sequence). The match must cover the ENTIRE input string s (not partial). s contains only lowercase letters; p contains lowercase letters, '?' and '*'. Return True if p matches s. 0 <= len(s), len(p) <= 2000.

Implement
wildcard_match(s: str, p: str) → bool
Examples
in["adceb","*a*b"]outtrue
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
["adceb","*a*b"]truenot run yetsample