Help with a scripting task

[Douglas W McKibbin]

I want to find a number located in a text file and replace it with  
the line number of the line where the number resides-2.  The number  
to find is located in the only line that starts with "SE*"and resides  
between the first and second "*" in the line ..... eg  in line  
SE*165*29799905~of the text file the number to replace would be 165  
and the replacement number would be the line number of the  
SE*165*2799905~ line-2.  I think this is pretty simple but I'm not at  
all familiar with grep and only mildly literate with applescript.   
Thanks for any help.
Douglas McKibbin 

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