Php Smart Search/replace Functionality

It is much easier than using regex.

Installation:

composer require imanghafoori/php-search-replace

Usage:

1- Lets say you want to remove double semi-colon occurances like these:

$user = 1;;
$user = 2; ;
$user = 3;
;

Then you can define a pattern like this:

$pattern = [';;' => ['replace' => ';']];

This will catch all the 3 cases above since the neutral php whitespaces are ignored while searching.

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Keywords:

• '<white_space>'
• '<until>'
• '<in_between>'
• '<comment>'
• '<variable>' or '<var>'
• '<string>' or '<str>'
• '<any>'

Example:

lets say you want to remove the optional comma from arrays:

$a = [
   '1',
   '2',
];
$b = ['1','2',];

Then you can define a pattern like this:

$pattern = [',"<whitespace>?"]' => ['replace' => '"<1>"]']];

Here the "<whitespace>?" mean an optional white space may reside there, and the "<1>" means the value that matches the first placeholder should be put there.