Reading selected data from text files

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "..:: sjf ::.." <sjf at autograf.pl> (SJF) wrote:

SJF> Hello Pythoners!
SJF> There are a lot of files containing data such as:

SJF> file1:
SJF> 0950 1550

SJF> file22:
SJF> 0952 1552

SJF> file3:
SJF> 1000 1020 1050 1130 1150 1200 1245 1600

SJF> file4:
SJF> 1002 1022 1052 1132 1152 1202 1247 1602

SJF> file5:
SJF> 1005 1025 1055 1135 1155 1205 1250 1605

SJF> I want to read from them only that data which produce a following sequence
SJF> of data:
SJF> => 0950 0952 1000 1002 1005
SJF> => 1555 1557 1600 1602 1605

How do you get at these values, as 1555 and 1557 aren't in your input files?
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