Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!att-ih!occrsh!occrsh.ATT.COM!rjd
From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A little help with SED please - cla
Message-ID: <142700030@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 88 18:16:00 GMT
References: <5490@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Lines: 43
Nf-ID: #R:sigi.Colorado.EDU:-549000:occrsh.ATT.COM:142700030:000:723
Nf-From: occrsh.ATT.COM!rjd    Apr 20 12:16:00 1988


: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