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

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);

string input = "User name (sales)";

string output = input.Substring(input.IndexOf('(') + 1, input.IndexOf(')') - input.IndexOf('(') - 1);

这段代码比这里的大多数解决方案(如果不是全部的话)都快，打包为String扩展方法，它不支持递归嵌套:

public static string GetNestedString(this string str, char start, char end)
{
    int s = -1;
    int i = -1;
    while (++i < str.Length)
        if (str[i] == start)
        {
            s = i;
            break;
        }
    int e = -1;
    while(++i < str.Length)
        if (str[i] == end)
        {
            e = i;
            break;
        }
    if (e > s)
        return str.Substring(s + 1, e - s - 1);
    return null;
}

这一个稍微长一点，也慢一点，但它处理递归嵌套更漂亮:

public static string GetNestedString(this string str, char start, char end)
{
    int s = -1;
    int i = -1;
    while (++i < str.Length)
        if (str[i] == start)
        {
            s = i;
            break;
        }
    int e = -1;
    int depth = 0;
    while (++i < str.Length)
        if (str[i] == end)
        {
            e = i;
            if (depth == 0)
                break;
            else
                --depth;
        }
        else if (str[i] == start)
            ++depth;
    if (e > s)
        return str.Substring(s + 1, e - s - 1);
    return null;
}

 var input = "12(34)1(12)(14)234";
 var output = "";
 for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
 {
     if (input[i] == '(')
     {
         var start = i + 1;
         var end = input.IndexOf(')', i + 1);
         output += input.Substring(start, end - start) + ",";
     }
 }

 if (output.Length > 0) // remove last comma
  output = output.Remove(output.Length - 1);

输出:“34,12,14”