Code RoomWildcard string matching
HardPrep Room Coding #1088

Wildcard string matching

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~30 min

Implement wildcard pattern matching over the whole string s with pattern p, where '?' matches any single character and '*' matches any sequence of characters including the empty sequence. Return whether p matches s entirely. Both strings may be empty and contain only lowercase letters plus the wildcards.

Implement
wildcard_match(s: str, p: str) → bool
Examples
in["aa","a"]outfalse
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
["aa","a"]falsenot run yetsample