I have a drop down control and the items look like this

```
Books(10)
Glasses(230)
Notebooks(27)

```

so basically i am grabbing the SelectedItem.Text; but I want to grab only the value before the amount in stock so when I grab it from SelectedItem.Text; it should look like this

```
string myString = (some code to get just the name without the stock i.e Books);

```

Thank you