public class CompareStrings { 
public static boolean match(String x, String y) {
    return match(x.toCharArray(), y.toCharArray(), x.length() - 1, y.length() - 1);
}

private static boolean match(char[] x, char[] y, int xPosition, int yPosition) {
    if (xPosition < 0 || yPosition < 0) {
        return false;

public class CompareStrings { 
public static boolean match(String x, String y, boolean wildCard ) {
	//Both strings are empty
	if((x.length() == 0) &&(y.length()==0))
		{
			return true;
		}
	//Second string is empty and there is wildCard character
	if(y.length() == 0 && wildCard)
		{

public static void main(String args[]) { 
 System.out.println(match("hello", "hello.")); // should return false
 System.out.println(match("hello", "jello")); // should return false
 System.out.println(match("hello", "h@llo")); // should return true
 System.out.println(match("hello", "h@@@@")); // should return true
 System.out.println(match("hello",