java-替换以特定字符开头 特定字符结尾的长字符串

private static String replaceAll(String htmlString,
                            String start,
                            String end,
                            String newString,
                            boolean logError,
                            boolean reportError)
   {
      StringBuffer modString = new StringBuffer(htmlString.length());
      int i = 0, j = 0, j2=0;
      int tagFound = 0;
      while(true) {
         // first check if there are any matching start & end
         i = htmlString.indexOf(start, j2);
         if( i != -1 ) {
            j = htmlString.indexOf(end, i);
         } else {
            j = htmlString.indexOf(end, j2);
         }
         if ((i != -1) && (j != -1)) {
            tagFound++;
            modString.append( htmlString.substring(j2, i)).append( newString );
            j2 = j + end.length();// 此处不可以改为
// j2 = modString.length();因为进行查找相同的操作时是在htmlString上// 操作的，htmlString是没有变过的。进行拼接操作的是modString.
         }
         else {
            modString.append( htmlString.substring(j2));
            if((i != -1) && (j == -1) || (i == -1) && (j != -1)) {
               //hack, to report same error message as if no tags found at all.
               //if later determined to report a different error message if we do
               //find tags but the last tag is not matched, we just need
               //to put the logic here.
               tagFound = 0;
            }
            break;
         }
      }
      if( tagFound == 0 ) {
         if (logError) {
            // write the stack trace to the log file
            String msg = "No matching tag for " + start + " or " + end;
            EfsnNonFatalException e = new EfsnNonFatalException(msg);
            LogWriter.log(e);
         }

         if (reportError) {
            return "no matching tag found in replaceAll=" + start;
         }
         else {
            return htmlString;
         }
      }
      return modString.toString();
   }