一个非常简单的方法是使用正则表达式:

Regex.Match("User name (sales)", @"\(([^)]*)\)").Groups[1].Value

作为对(非常有趣的)评论的回应，这里是同一个正则表达式的一些解释:

\(             # Escaped parenthesis, means "starts with a '(' character"
    (          # Parentheses in a regex mean "put (capture) the stuff 
               #     in between into the Groups array" 
       [^)]    # Any character that is not a ')' character
       *       # Zero or more occurrences of the aforementioned "non ')' char"
    )          # Close the capturing group
\)             # "Ends with a ')' character"

也许是正则表达式?我认为这行得通……

\(([a-z]+?)\)

我认为regex方法更好，但如果你想使用卑微的子字符串

string input= "my name is (Jayne C)";
int start = input.IndexOf("(");
int stop = input.IndexOf(")");
string output = input.Substring(start+1, stop - start - 1);

or

string input = "my name is (Jayne C)";
string output  = input.Substring(input.IndexOf("(") +1, input.IndexOf(")")- input.IndexOf("(")- 1);

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

private IEnumerable<string> GetSubStrings(string input, string start, string end)
{
    Regex r = new Regex(Regex.Escape(start) +`"(.*?)"`  + Regex.Escape(end));
    MatchCollection matches = r.Matches(input);
    foreach (Match match in matches)
    yield return match.Groups[1].Value;
}

如果你想远离正则表达式，我能想到的最简单的方法是:

string input = "User name (sales)";
string output = input.Split('(', ')')[1];

使用这个函数:

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));
}

用法如下:

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

输出将是:

sales