Modifying .hwp (Hangul Word Processor) files without conversion

Phenomanan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been trying to do search & replace in different file types, and am running into trouble with .hwp files. I cannot use a converter, because it is too big to incorporate in our project. This is particularly sad because I was easily able to modify .hwp when I converted it to .odt, but that is out of the question now. How does one go about searching and replacing in an .hwp file in PERL?

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Re: Modifying .hwp (Hangul Word Processor) files without conversion by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jul 22, 2016 at 17:30 UTC
The HWP binary format specification has been published online free by Hancom on June 29, 2010 (see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_(word_processor)).	[reply]
Re^2: Modifying .hwp (Hangul Word Processor) files without conversion by Phenomanan (Monk) on Jul 22, 2016 at 20:25 UTC
I looked through the Wikipedia page (including references), and I don't see anything about the binary format specification. I can't seem to find it on Google either... hope I'm not just blind. Maybe I should try Korean Google. Do you have a link to where I can get this information? I'd appreciate it. Edit: Crap it's the one in Korean isn't it. Damn, guess I'll have to google translate it or hopefully find it in English.	[reply]
Re^3: Modifying .hwp (Hangul Word Processor) files without conversion by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 22, 2016 at 21:02 UTC
This is from Wiki citations: http://www.hancom.co.kr/userofficedata.userofficedataList.do?menuFlag=3. While I can get my face slapped or order 소주 and 콩비지 in Korean, that's about as far as I go so I don't know if the spec is buried in that page or not.	[reply]
Re^4: Modifying .hwp (Hangul Word Processor) files without conversion by Phenomanan (Monk) on Jul 25, 2016 at 15:27 UTC
Re^3: Modifying .hwp (Hangul Word Processor) files without conversion by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jul 22, 2016 at 21:08 UTC
Sorry, I do not know more than what is in the Wikipedia page I linked to. I looked at it because I did not even know what Hangul was, nor the the HWP format. Presumably, the specification in on this page: http://www.hancom.co.kr/userofficedata.userofficedataList.do?menuFlag=3, or linked to within this page, but I do not know Korean at all, so I can't help you further. Edit: Your Mother provided the link while I was fighting with my computer and Internet connection over mobile network, so (s)he was the first to provide the link I have above.	[reply]
Re^4: Modifying .hwp (Hangul Word Processor) files without conversion by Phenomanan (Monk) on Jul 25, 2016 at 15:25 UTC


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