PHP: Best way to extract text within parenthesis?

Question

What\'s the best/most efficient way to extract text set between parenthesis? Say I wanted to get the string \"text\" from the string \"ignore everything except this (text)\"

Answer 1

i think this is the fastest way to get the words between the first parenthesis in a string.

$string = 'ignore everything except this (text)';
$string = explode(')', (explode('(', $string)[1]))[0];
echo $string;