Delete rows from text file that do not contain certain numbers

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Hi all, I am trying to delete all the lines that do NOT contain 1010001 and 1010003. Can anybody help how to make this job much easier?
Thanks, below is a bit of a data.
1010001,1960,1,67.1,-11.0
1010001,1960,2,101.0,-5.4
1010001,1960,3,56.3,-6.2
1010001,1960,4,77.5,2.1
1010001,1960,5,74.0,13.4
1010001,1960,6,91.1,15.9
1010001,1960,7,102.2,17.0
1010001,1960,8,67.8,17.1
1010001,1960,9,74.8,13.0
1010001,1960,10,96.7,5.3
1010001,1960,11,70.5,0.9
1010001,1960,12,89.3,-8.9
1010002,1960,1,67.1,-10.7
1010002,1960,2,104.5,-4.9
1010002,1960,3,56.8,-6.1
1010002,1960,4,77.3,2.3
1010002,1960,5,71.5,13.6
1010002,1960,6,91.6,16.0
1010002,1960,7,104.2,17.2
1010002,1960,8,60.8,17.2
1010002,1960,9,77.4,13.2
1010002,1960,10,101.2,5.3
1010002,1960,11,70.0,0.9
1010002,1960,12,87.1,-8.7
1010003,1960,1,70.9,-11.4
1010003,1960,2,98.1,-5.4
1010003,1960,3,57.4,-6.0
1010003,1960,4,78.2,1.8
1010003,1960,5,78.7,13.5
1010003,1960,6,87.5,15.9
1010003,1960,7,103.0,17.2
1010003,1960,8,76.7,17.3
1010003,1960,9,68.6,12.9
1010003,1960,10,90.9,5.2
1010003,1960,11,70.0,0.9
1010003,1960,12,100.7,-9.0
1010004,1960,1,77.5,-11.1
1010004,1960,2,108.6,-5.1
1010004,1960,3,58.4,-5.7
1010004,1960,4,80.4,2.1
1010004,1960,5,76.8,13.5
1010004,1960,6,108.8,16.0
1010004,1960,7,101.4,17.4
1010004,1960,8,48.8,17.5
1010004,1960,9,62.5,13.2
1010004,1960,10,100.0,5.4
1010004,1960,11,70.0,1.2
1010004,1960,12,106.9,-8.8
1010005,1960,1,95.2,-10.5
1010005,1960,2,104.2,-4.7
1010005,1960,3,58.9,-5.0
1010005,1960,4,68.7,2.9
1010005,1960,5,74.3,13.8
1010005,1960,6,106.6,16.4
1010005,1960,7,102.8,17.9
1010005,1960,8,30.9,17.9
1010005,1960,9,47.9,13.2
1010005,1960,10,98.7,5.6

Accepted Answer

Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 9 Nov 2014
a=importdata('file.txt')
a(~ismember(a(:,1),[1010001;1010003],'rows'),:)=[]

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