Regex to convert old closure based view routes to Route::view()

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The following regex will convert old, closure-based view routes from:

Route::get('faq', function () {
    return view('faq');
});

to the new, cacheable Route::view() introduced in Laravel 5.5.

Route::view('/faq', 'faq');

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Search String

Route::get\('([^']+)', function \(\) \{\s+return view\('([^']+)'\);\s+\}\)

Note: assumes well-formatted code.

Replacement

Route::view('/$1', '$2')