Regular expression to extract inner text in R

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I got thousands of messages with the following structure

Some header text
-------------------------------------------
text I want to extract
-------------------------------------------
Some footer text

from which I want to extract the "text I want to extract" part and discard anything else. Now I am able to do this in several lines of R code such as

str_locate(messages[i],"-{5,}")

But that amounts to a lot of code. Is there a way to extract the text in a one-liner? In a way that also handles rare cases where the "----"s are not present in a message?

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Regular expression to extract inner text in R