A little help with SED please - cla

[Leslie Mikesell]

>
>:I need an sed line (or some gory pipeline) to extract the data between
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>:BEGIN and END.

How about:
sed -n -e '/BEGIN/,/END/p' |sed -e '/BEGIN/d' -e '/END/d'

perhaps with ^BEGIN$ if you want to force matches to full lines or
changing the second sed to s/BEGIN// if you don't.

  Les Mikesell