Thanks everyone for the responses. 

To help me to understand better the Grep part of Neil's solution, can 
someone provide me with the search pattern and the replace pattern to just 
find those lines with numbers in parentheses and extract them without any 
line numbers? I'd like to put that into the Pattern Playground and work 
with that a bit.
On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 4:59:15 pm UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:

> On 06/01/2021, at 08:11, Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a set of numbers. Within some of them is at least one number within 
> parentheses. I need to find all the lines containing numbers within 
> parentheses and extract those numbers. I also need to know which line they 
> are extracted from.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Hey Howard,
>
> Bash text filter:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> nl -n ln | sed -En 's![0-9]*(\([0-9]+\))[0-9]*!\1!p;'
>
> Result:
>
> 2     (10)
> 4     (16)
> 5     (10)(11)
>
> I've left on the parentheses to make it clear when there are more than one 
> set in a line.
>
>
> If we're going to resort to Perl we might as well go all in:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl -sw
> while (<>) {
>    if ( m!\(\d+\)! ) {
>       s!\d*(\(\d+\))\d*!$1!g;
>       print "$.\t" . $_;
>    }
> }
>
> Result:
>
> 2 (10)
> 4 (16)
> 5 (10)(11)
>
> Or just to be a bit cheeky:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl -sw
> while (<>) { if ( m!\(\d+\)! ) { s!\d*(\(\d+\))\d*!$1!g; print "$.\t" . $_; 
> } }
>
> OR
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> perl -wlne '{if(m!\(\d+\)!){s!\d*(\(\d+\))\d*!$1!g;print"$.\t".$_;}}'
>
> 😎
>
> Don't forget – you can extract text directly from the front document using 
> the Find Dialog and the [Extract] button.
>
> 1) Number lines.
> 2) Extract lines to new doc (with Find Dialog).
> 3) Find/replace to leave only the desired text.
>
> The same as Neil's suggestion but without using *Process Lines Containing*
> .
>
> TMTOWTDI.
>
> I generally prefer using a text filter for this sort of thing, and I have 
> one that opens with a hotkey and runs via another hotkey. So writing a 
> filter and running it usually takes me less time than running through the 
> steps with BBEdit's other tools.  ( Usually but not always... :)
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
>

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