A little help with SED please - cla

[rjd at occrsh.ATT.COM]

:I need an sed line (or some gory pipeline) to extract the data between
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:BEGIN and END.
:
:I should have added the following:
:
:	>I have a text file of this form:
:	    [... junk ...]
:	>   BEGIN
:	>     1
:	>     2
:	>     3
:	>   END
:	    [... junk ...]
:	>   BEGIN
:	>     4
:	>     5
:	>     6
:	>   END
:	    [... junk ...]

   Is "awk" gory enough??? :-)   Here's an awk script:

cat <text file> | awk -f script

where 'script' is a file containing this:
--------- cut here ---------
BEGIN {
	prnt=0
	bgn=0
}

/BEGIN/ && $0 == "BEGIN" {prnt=1;bgn=1}
/END/ && $0 == "END" {prnt=0}

NF > 0 {
if( prnt == 1 && bgn != 1)
	print $0
bgn=0
}
--------- cut here ---------

Randy