44. Wildcard Matching

Implement wildcard pattern matching with support for'?'and'*'.

'?' Matches any single character.
'*' Matches any sequence of characters (including the empty sequence).

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", "*") → true
isMatch("aa", "a*") → true
isMatch("ab", "?*") → true
isMatch("aab", "c*a*b") → false

Thoughts:

  1. Keep track of last current input string position, current pattern string position and last asterisk (*) position.

  2. O(n + m) without extra space

Code (C):

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