Perl .pl file issue.That is unrecognise characters no source code.why?

[gevornairi]

Hi I am new in Perl programming. and I have one Issue about .pl file. I have one project that allready working it creates with perl, and there are many .pl files but when I am trying to open that .pl files I see there unreconnizes characters.Why I cant see the source code?

[numberwhun]

Did you write this file or someone else? If it was someone else, it may be that they compiled it into an executable so that you can simply run it anywhere.

Regards,

Jeff

[gevornairi]

No I didnt wrote that. It can be that file extension is .pl and it is an binary code compiled? can I parse that to the source code?

[numberwhun]

Unfortunately, no. That is the whole purpose that someone compiled it to binary, so you couldn't steal the source code. You will have to contact the author if you truly want a copy of it.