How to replace Text with a Regex Regular Expression String in PHP

I’m not here to tell you why Regex regular expression strings are important — you probably already know. Instead, you are here so I can demonstrate how to expedite the implementation of search and replace for said Regex strings. It’s simple enough if you know the trick that I am about to share with you.

In Composer, open the command line and run the following command.

composer require cloudmersive/cloudmersive_document_convert_api_client

This will install our client, which will in turn open access to the API function that we need here:

<?php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
$config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('Apikey', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
// $config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKeyPrefix('Apikey', 'Bearer');
$apiInstance = new Swagger\Client\Api\EditTextApi(
// If you want use custom http client, pass your client which implements `GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface`.
// This is optional, `GuzzleHttp\Client` will be used as default.
new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
$config
);
$request = new \Swagger\Client\Model\ReplaceStringRegexRequest(); // \Swagger\Client\Model\ReplaceStringRegexRequest | Input request
try {
$result = $apiInstance->editTextReplaceRegex($request);
print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling EditTextApi->editTextReplaceRegex: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}
?>

Now you can use editTextReplaceRegex to do all the work for you. Easy as that.