下面是一个通用的可读函数，避免使用regex:

// Returns the text between 'start' and 'end'.
string ExtractBetween(string text, string start, string end)
{
  int iStart = text.IndexOf(start);
  iStart = (iStart == -1) ? 0 : iStart + start.Length;
  int iEnd = text.LastIndexOf(end);
  if(iEnd == -1)
  {
    iEnd = text.Length;
  }
  int len = iEnd - iStart;

  return text.Substring(iStart, len);
}

要在你的特定例子中调用它，你可以这样做:

string result = ExtractBetween("User name (sales)", "(", ")");

也许是正则表达式?我认为这行得通……

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

正则表达式可能是这里最好的工具。如果你不熟悉它们，我建议你安装Expresso -一个很棒的小正则表达式工具。

喜欢的东西:

Regex regex = new Regex("\\((?<TextInsideBrackets>\\w+)\\)");
string incomingValue = "Username (sales)";
string insideBrackets = null;
Match match = regex.Match(incomingValue);
if(match.Success)
{
    insideBrackets = match.Groups["TextInsideBrackets"].Value;
}

int start = input.IndexOf("(") + 1;
int length = input.IndexOf(")") - start;
output = input.Substring(start, length);

我最近一直在使用和滥用c# 9，甚至在一些可疑的场景中，我也忍不住要加入span…只是为了好玩，以下是上述答案的变体:

var input = "User name (sales)";
var txtSpan = input.AsSpan();
var startPoint = txtSpan.IndexOf('(') + 1;
var length = txtSpan.LastIndexOf(')') - startPoint;
var output = txtSpan.Slice(startPoint, length);

对于OP的特定场景，它产生正确的输出。 (就我个人而言，我会使用其他人发布的RegEx。在上述解决方案崩溃的情况下，更容易解决更棘手的情况)。

我为自己的项目做了一个更好的版本(作为扩展方法):

//Note: This only captures the first occurrence, but 
//can be easily modified to scan across the text (I'd prefer Slicing a Span)  
public static string ExtractFromBetweenChars(this string txt, char openChar, char closeChar)
{
    ReadOnlySpan<char> span = txt.AsSpan();
    int firstCharPos = span.IndexOf(openChar);
    int lastCharPos = -1;

    if (firstCharPos != -1) 
    { 
        for (int n = firstCharPos + 1; n < span.Length; n++)
        {
            if (span[n] == openChar) firstCharPos = n; //This allows the opening char position to change
            if (span[n] == closeChar) lastCharPos = n;
            if (lastCharPos > firstCharPos) break;
            //This would correctly extract "sales" from this [contrived]
            //example: "just (a (name (sales) )))(test"
        }
        return span.Slice(firstCharPos + 1, lastCharPos - firstCharPos - 1).ToString();
    }
    return "";
}

假设你只有一对括号。

string s = "User name (sales)";
int start = s.IndexOf("(") + 1;
int end = s.IndexOf(")", start);
string result = s.Substring(start, end - start);