POSIX regexp for finding everything between wordX and wordY

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Published on 2010-04-25T01:28:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 1:33 UTC
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I have string as:

FOO /some/%string-in.here BAR

I would like to get everything between FOO and BAR but NOT including FOO[:space:] and NOT including [:space:]BAR

Any ideas it will be appreciate it.

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