Question: Amazon is developing a string matching library. You are to develop a service that finds the longest substring that matches a given regex. More

Amazon is developing a string matching library. You are to develop a

 

Amazon is developing a string matching library. You are to develop a service that finds the longest substring that matches a given regex. More formally, you are given two strings, a text string text, and a regex expression regex. The string regex contains exactly one wildcard character(*). A wildcard character (*) matches any sequence of zero or more lowercase English characters. A regex matches some string if it is possible to replace the wildcard character with some sequence of characters such that the regex expression becomes equal to the string. No other character can be changed. For example, regex "abc*bcd" matches "abcbcd", "abcefgbcd" and "abccbcd" whereas it does not match the strings "abcbd", "abzbcd", "abcd". Return the length of the longest substring of text that matches the expression regex. Return -1 if there is no such substring. Note: A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string Example Given text="hackerrank", regex = "ack*r" The following substrings match regex

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