How to use sed/grep to extract text between two words?

Question

I am trying to output a string that contains everything between two words of a string:

input:

\"Here is a String\"

output:

Answer 1

You can strip strings in Bash alone:

$ foo="Here is a String"
$ foo=${foo##*Here }
$ echo "$foo"
is a String
$ foo=${foo%% String*}
$ echo "$foo"
is a
$

And if you have a GNU grep that includes PCRE, you can use a zero-width assertion:

$ echo "Here is a String" | grep -Po '(?<=(Here )).*(?= String)'
is a