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+Trie Pattern matching with Wildcard * and ? (Facebook)
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+### Facebook
+
+Implement trie match for a whole word, and also support if the whole word contains:
+* `?` (match any one character) or
+* `*` (any zero or more characters).
+
+### Example 1:
+```
+    root = Matching()
+    root.insert('abc')
+    root.insert('acd')
+    root.insert('bcd')
+    print(root.search('acd')) # True
+    print(root.search('acdd')) # False
+    print(root.search('aaa')) # False
+    print(root.search('a?d')) # True
+    print(root.search('a*d')) # True
+    print(root.search('ad*')) # False
+    print(root.search('*c*')) # True
+    print(root.search('*c?')) # True
+    print(root.search('*a?')) # False
+```
+
+Solution
+========
+
+```python
+class TrieNode:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.children = {}
+        self.isEnd = False
+
+class Matching:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.root = TrieNode()
+
+    def insert(self, source):
+        if not source:
+            return
+        node = self.root
+        for s in source:
+            if s not in node.children:
+                node.children[s] = TrieNode()
+            node = node.children[s]
+        node.isEnd = True
+
+    def search(self, source):
+        return self._search(self.root, source)
+
+    def _search(self, root, source):
+        p = root
+        for i, c in enumerate(source):
+            if c not in p.children:
+                if c == '?':
+                    for child in p.children:
+                        if self._search(p.children[child], source[i+1:]):
+                            return True
+                elif c == '*':
+                    for child in p.children:
+                        node = p.children[child]
+                        if self._search(node, source[i+1:]) or self._search(node, source):
+                            return True
+                # Either not '?' and c not in p.children or
+                # it was '?' but the rest did not match or
+                # it was '*' but the rest did not match.
+                return False
+            p = p.children[c]
+        return p.isEnd
+
+```