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Abstract

A system and method are provided for populating a database and/or software screen in a computer with data read from portable high-capacity machine-readable media. The method of the present invention includes the steps of: loading and executing an interpretive software program in the computer; reading a portable high-capacity machine-readable medium with a reading device coupled to the computer; and using the interpretive software program to identify any qualifier character that is present in the data read from the machine-readable medium, ignore the data if no qualifier character is identified, and populate the database and/or software screen with the data read from the machine-readable medium if a qualifier character is identified. The method may additionally, or alternatively, include the step of using the interpretive software program to identify any instructor characters that are present in the data read from the machine-readable medium, identify a data field within the database and/or software screen that corresponds to each identified instructor character, and populate the identified data field with data in the machine-readable medium that follows the corresponding instructor character.

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First Claim