First occurence of pattern in text

Problem :

Given a string text and a pattern with zero or more special character ‘’ and ‘’ can be mapped with any character, find the starting index of the first occurrence of pattern in the text.

     eg: Input: text = “abcdefgh” and pattern “c*d”

           Output: 2

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