There seems to be a description of the Wordstar 7.0 format at Wotsit. You might be able to use the info to create your own parser. - Don't forget to put it on the CPAN if you do :-)
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A long time ago, I did a short foray into the world of WordStar files, and the Wordstar format was relatively simple to parse :
The format was mostly plain ASCII and special sequences (like font changes) were embedded into it via a special marker (0x27), the length of the special sequence, the sequence, again the length and the marker again (so you could skip it coming from both sides.
But, as this was when I was a young lad of fourteen years, many winters ago, my memory has become hazy.
If you have Unix programs available, you could simply run strings -1 <file to see what you get out of this via brute force.
perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web
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Not Perl related, but perhaps it might help... Have a good look at this page:http://www.icdatamaster.com/convert.html
as it contains two utilities, WSCONV and WS2HTML. Perhaps those will do what you want.
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If you're gonna write one ;)
http://www.wotsit.org/
http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=wordstar -- the specification
http://www.wordstar.org/?
http://myfileformats.com/ -- lame clone of wotsit.org
update: I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers wotsit.org (jay Joost). Too bad it took me 20 minutes to complete writing submit this ;)(i was distracted by myfileformats)
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Hey,
I don't know about any modules, but if you're on unix,
the 'strings' command might help. Try:
strings mydoc > mydoc.txt
and see if mydoc.txt has what you want. You also might
try visiting this page.
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This may or may not help, depending on the nature of your project.
There is a company that sells software to convert (among other things) WordStar to HTML (or XML). Here's a link:
stellent.com
I have no idea how much it costs, but based on the 50K files I'm going to assume you might be doing this for a company that can afford to pay for software, or a nonprofit that might get it for free.
There is also a free utility for DOS, with cool language features, and it might also do the job (I'd try this first):
wordstar.org
Otherwise I'd guess it might be possible to wrap a script around OpenOffice or similar.
Sorry, I really wanted to say something like use Doc::WordStar qw(convert_to_html convert_to_ascii);
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OOPS I notice now there are a bunch of converters linked to on that wordstar.org page, not just the one.
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