What are some best practices for handling multiple links within a large HTML string in PHP?

When handling multiple links within a large HTML string in PHP, it is important to use regular expressions to identify and modify each link individually. One approach is to use the preg_replace() function with a regular expression pattern that matches links, and a callback function to process each link. This allows you to efficiently iterate through the HTML string and modify all links as needed. 

$html = "<p>This is a <a href='https://example.com'>link</a> and another <a href='https://google.com'>link</a> in a large HTML string.</p>";

$modified_html = preg_replace_callback(
    '/<a\s[^>]*href=(["\'])(.*?)\1[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/i',
    function($match) {
        $url = $match[2];
        $text = $match[3];
        
        // Modify the link URL or text here
        $new_url = 'https://newurl.com';
        $new_text = strtoupper($text);
        
        return "<a href='$new_url'>$new_text</a>";
    },
    $html
);

echo $modified_html;

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