For a given file 
Sample
PP: (899040) Jane Smith
Output
PP: 899040 Jane Smith

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my $filename = "filename";
open my $file, '<', $filename;
@fileinput=<$file>;
close($file);

foreach $line(@fileinput)
{
my $test=($line);
if($test=~s/\(|\)//g)
{ print $test;
}

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it remove the parenthesis but it also remove the parenthesis of a non digits. when I Tried to use the code

if($test=~s/\([\d.+]|[\d.+]\)//g) 
the output appeared to be
PP: 8945, it didn''t get the 6 digits number

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How do I get the numeric values without the parenthesis and add that with the tag 'ID:' in the file to display?

In reply to Extracting the number in a file and get the value and output to the other file by allison

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