How do I remove text between two "tags" in Google Apps Script - google-apps-script

Question

I am using Google Apps Script to make documents from a "template". This template in Google Docs has the following format:
(Text above the area of interest...) Culpa cillum excepteur cupidatat cillum ex.
{mySpecialText}
Est consectetur irure non quis sint exercitation velit qui consequat incididunt officia laborum ea veniam.
{/mySpecialText}
(More ignored text here...) Tempor voluptate irure laboris occaecat enim ipsum consequat velit.
The text between the two tags {mySpecialText} and {/mySpecialText} should be deleted, in addition to the tags. How do I go about doing this? My current code shown below removes the tags but not the paragraph in between.
/**
* #param doc - a `Document` instance.
* #param sectionId - the name of the tag
*/
function removeSection (doc, sectionId) {
var startTag = '{' + sectionId + '}'
var endTag = '{/' + sectionId + '}'
var body = doc.getBody()
var startElem = body.findText(startTag)
var endElem = body.findText(endTag)
if (startElem == null) {
return Logger.log('Couldn\'t find startElem with tag "' + startTag + '"')
}
if (endElem == null) {
return Logger.log('Couldn\'t find endElem with tag "' + endTag + '"')
}
startElem = startElem.getElement()
endElem = endElem.getElement()
var toRemove = []
var currentElement = startElem
while (currentElement !== null && !isSameElement(currentElement, endElem)) {
toRemove.push(currentElement)
currentElement = currentElement.getNextSibling()
}
toRemove.push(endElem)
for (var i = 0; i < toRemove.length; i++) {
toRemove[i].removeFromParent()
}
}

Answer 1

You need to delete the entire paragraph between the tags. Assuming this is only one paragraph, you could retrieve the paragraph element and delete it as follows:
var removeme = startElem.getParent().getNextSibling().asParagraph();
removeme.removeFromParent();
If there could be multiple paragraphs, you could write some script with a loop that detects whether the next sibling of removeme is an end tag. If it is not, then delete the paragraph, otherwise stop the loop.