How do I extract text that lies between parentheses (round brackets)?

Question

I have a string User name (sales) and I want to extract the text between the brackets, how would I do this?

I suspect sub-string but I can\'t work out

Answer 1

Use this function:

public string GetSubstringByString(string a, string b, string c)
    {
        return c.Substring((c.IndexOf(a) + a.Length), (c.IndexOf(b) - c.IndexOf(a) - a.Length));
    }

and here is the usage:

GetSubstringByString("(", ")", "User name (sales)")

and the output would be:

sales