sed print line from regex to regex

Question

I have a file with the following text:

text
START
This
has
to
be
printed
STOP
more text

Now i want the text in between START and STOP to be printed. I wrote the following:

cat file | sed '/START/,/STOP/p'

But that does not seem to be doing what i want. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you want to print between the start and stop signs, try:

sed -n '/START/,/STOP/ { //!p }' file.txt

Results:

This
has
to
be
printed