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Palindrome Checker with Wildcard

Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy/Medium
Languages: Any

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Given a string that may contain lowercase English letters and a special wildcard character '*', implement a function that determines if the string is a palindrome. The wildcard character '*' can match any single character.

For example:
- "racecar" is a palindrome.
- "r*cecar" is a palindrome ('*' matches 'a').
- "r*cec*r" is a palindrome (both '*' match 'a').
- "hello" is not a palindrome.
- "h*llo" is not a palindrome (no single character can make it a palindrome).
- "a*" is a palindrome ('*' matches 'a').
- "*" is a palindrome ('*' matches itself or any single character).

Write a function is_wildcard_palindrome(text: str) -> bool that returns True if the string is a palindrome considering the wildcard, and False otherwise.

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Palindrome Checker with Wildcard

Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy/Medium
Languages: Any

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Given a string that may contain lowercase English letters and a special wildcard character '*', implement a function that determines if the string is a palindrome. The wildcard character '*' can match any single character.

For example:
- "racecar" is a palindrome.
- "r*cecar" is a palindrome ('*' matches 'a').
- "r*cec*r" is a palindrome (both '*' match 'a').
- "hello" is not a palindrome.
- "h*llo" is not a palindrome (no single character can make it a palindrome).
- "a*" is a palindrome ('*' matches 'a').
- "*" is a palindrome ('*' matches itself or any single character).

Write a function is_wildcard_palindrome(text: str) -> bool that returns True if the string is a palindrome considering the wildcard, and False otherwise.

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