Java - How to replace a String between two substrings?

Java String Manipulation Regex Java 

Following code shows how to replace a part of input string between two given substrings (recursively). We are doing that in two ways: with Java Regex and without regex.

package com.logicbig.example;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class ReplaceBetween {
    public static String replaceBetween(String input,
                                        String start, String end,
                                        String replaceWith) {
        return replaceBetween(input, start, end, false, false, replaceWith);
    }

    public static String replaceBetween(String input,
                                        String start, String end,
                                        boolean startInclusive,
                                        boolean endInclusive,
                                        String replaceWith) {
        start = Pattern.quote(start);
        end = Pattern.quote(end);
        return input.replaceAll("(" + start + ")" + ".*" + "(" + end + ")",
                (startInclusive ? "" : "$1") + replaceWith + (endInclusive ? "" : "$2"));
    }

    //without regex
    public static String replaceBetweenWithoutRegex(String str,
                                                    String start, String end,
                                                    boolean startInclusive,
                                                    boolean endInclusive,
                                                    String replaceWith) {
        int i = str.indexOf(start);
        while (i != -1) {
            int j = str.indexOf(end, i + 1);
            if (j != -1) {
                String data = (startInclusive ? str.substring(0, i) : str.substring(0, i + start.length())) +
                        replaceWith;
                String temp = (endInclusive ? str.substring(j + end.length()) : str.substring(j));
                data += temp;
                str = data;
                i = str.indexOf(start, i + replaceWith.length() + end.length() + 1);
            } else {
                break;
            }
        }
        return str;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String input = "<div>this is a <b>good</b> apple</div>";
        System.out.println(input);
        String s = replaceBetween(input, "<b>", "</b>", "big");
        System.out.println(s);
        s = replaceBetween(input, "<b>", "</b>", true, true, "big");
        System.out.println(s);

        String input2 = "there's more than one way to skin a cat";
        System.out.println(input2);
        String s2 = replaceBetween(input2, "more", "skin a", " to ");
        System.out.println(s2);
        s2 = replaceBetween(input2, "more", "skin a", true, true, "no");
        System.out.println(s2);

        System.out.println("-- without regex --");
        replaceBetweenWithoutRegex(input2, "more", "skin a", true, true, "no");
        System.out.println(s2);
    }
}

<div>this is a <b>good</b> apple</div>
<div>this is a <b>big</b> apple</div>
<div>this is a big apple</div>
there's more than one way to skin a cat
there's more to skin a cat
there's no cat
-- without regex --
there's no cat