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| | Maresware computer forensics, extracting data article |
 | | The database contained 7,000 records, and the zip codes were not contiguous, so that any kind of Excel sort was not helpful. |
 | | The first step was to isolate the data, by removing the first part of the file, which contained the database header, leaving the actual data records in the file. |
 | | This program jumped to the location in each record to check, compared the next 5 bytes against each of the 1100+ zip codes, and if a match was found, exported the entire record to the output file. |
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