Export thousands of entries to separate files

I don't know scripting. But I would sure like to find a script to do this little thing for me!
Some background is necessary:
Years ago, I was a dedicated HyperCard user. (If you know what I mean then you know my pain). I had a rolodex phone book with thousands of entries. As OSX came along, I ran HyperCard in classic. Now that I'm on an Intel Mac, classic is no longer supported. My clever solution was to export my stack entries to text and bring them into InDesign.
I'm limping along pretty well. Search in InD is very fast. And I've formatted the text using InD search and replace functions, I've made clear separations between entries. Each entry is one Paragraph, and between each entry is a spacer paragraph which carries a particular paragraph style called "Card Spacer". See the screenshot below.
My goal now is to move the data to a more useful platform - Notebook, Yojimbo come to mind. I'm thinking that what I need to do is EXPORT each entry as a separate text file to my hard drive. Then I can import the entries into the new database and each entry will be separate.
I'm hoping that a kind member with the scripting skills to do this will help me out.
With appreciation,
Lance (NYC)
Member NYInD User Group
CS3 Intel Mac 10.5.7

Hey Peter!
Thanks so much! The script worked, it created over 4,000 text files in the folder where the file sat. It took about 5 seconds! I think this will solve my problem.
Before I close this thread (with a "Yes, answered" click), there's one minor hiccup I'd like to show you. The script is creating files both for my entry paragraphs and also for the spacer paragraphs. So I get one spacer text file for each "record" file.
I thought it would be easy to simply delete all the odd or all the even numbered files, but for some reason, the odd/eveness of the record files is not the same throughout the 4000 files. Probably there is an errant extra Hard Return character occasionally, causing the alternation of odd/even to switch.
Can the script be modified to skip the card spacers? Can you test for the paragraph style and skip paragraphs that are styled with "Card Spacer"? Of course, I can insert any other character into the spacer paragraphs if you'd rather filter for something else.
I don't know if, or how, I would get rid of the extra records if I import them into the new program.
Peter, this is not the first time I've used one of your scripts. Looking in my scripts folder, I saw another with your name: KahrelBatchExport.js. Thanks again for your help.
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