Printing lines between BEGIN and END

[John Pierce]

awk '/^BEGIN$/,/^END$/ {if($1 !~ /^BEGIN$/ && $1 !~ /^END$/) print}' filename

sed -e '1,/^BEGIN$/d' -e '/^END$/,$d' filename

The sed script has the flaw that there must be at least one line preceding
the BEGIN line.

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