- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$data = <<<DATA
<div class="classeby_class">
<div class="classos-nope">
<div class="row">
<div class="class-show"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="class-first-one">
<div class="container">
<div class="classes-show">
<div class="class"></div>
<div class="classing"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
DATA;
$doc = new DomDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($data);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$xpath->registerNamespace("php", "http://php.net/xpath");
$xpath->registerPHPFunctions();
$classtoremove = $xpath->query("//div[1 = php:function('preg_match', '/\bclass\b/', string(@class))]");
foreach ($classtoremove as $a) {
var_dump($a->getAttribute("class"));
}