in reply to Search between pattern and append

What does your input look like? What are the values of $i and $j?

How does your program fail?

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Re^2: Search between pattern and append
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 13, 2018 at 16:39 UTC 
    START $i
MAY 
JUNE 
JULY
END $j

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    here $i and $j are variables which change. I am trying to search (with a one liner) between the pattern1 and pattern2 and prefix a variable. 
    perl -ne ' print if /START $i/ .. /END $j/' file.txt

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    EXPECTED RESULT: 
    START $i
$i $j MAY 
$i $j  JUNE 
$i $j  JULY
END $j

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    The $i and $j values change with variable
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