Add config check to replace processor

[fearful-symmetry]

Proposed commit message

fixes https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/38747

This adds a validation method to the config for the replace processor, so we don't get a null pointer deref and explosion in cases where a user hasn't configured a regex pattern.

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[efd6]

I think this may be overly strict. The implementation here prevents the use of the replace processor for removing a pattern; it is not possible to express s/<pattern>// while it was previously. The conventional approach of putting the value on a pointer to allow differentiation between an absence and a zero does not work with ucfg, it seems, so the validation would have to be done in code rather than in the struct tag.