Search hex string doesn't find some input byte values
Posted: 12 Feb 2022 19:31
I am trying to search for file contents, and click the "It's a hex string", mode:normal, type:binary.
If the input string contains a certain byte value, it is not found.
For example: a 3254 byte file contains multiple occurrences of "96 01 21 7F" near the end. The program does not find it. But it is able to find "01 21 7F".
If I search for "96" in a set of random 6818 files (web cache), it returns only 1501 files. In reality 5394 files contain a byte equal to 0x96. Furthermore, if I search for either of these values 80,82,84,85,86,87,89,8B,8D,8E,8F I also get only approximately 1500 files, give or take a few. 81, 88, 8A, 8C return the correct number. But this pattern doesn't hold when searching for 2 consecutive bytes. The number of files returned is somewhat less if one of the bytes is 8X, or maybe any greater than 80.
Version: 22.80
OS: Server 2003 SP2
Last version known to work: 16.10 (must select binary mode)
If the input string contains a certain byte value, it is not found.
For example: a 3254 byte file contains multiple occurrences of "96 01 21 7F" near the end. The program does not find it. But it is able to find "01 21 7F".
If I search for "96" in a set of random 6818 files (web cache), it returns only 1501 files. In reality 5394 files contain a byte equal to 0x96. Furthermore, if I search for either of these values 80,82,84,85,86,87,89,8B,8D,8E,8F I also get only approximately 1500 files, give or take a few. 81, 88, 8A, 8C return the correct number. But this pattern doesn't hold when searching for 2 consecutive bytes. The number of files returned is somewhat less if one of the bytes is 8X, or maybe any greater than 80.
Version: 22.80
OS: Server 2003 SP2
Last version known to work: 16.10 (must select binary mode)
