in reply to Help me recover my Perl script

I suspect that you are toasted, unless you have the auto-save plugin installed; you will just have to re-enter your code. My preferred editor (vim) is configured to auto-save every minute because I too was burned this way, Back In the Day....

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Re^2: Help me recover my Perl script
by paragkalra (Scribe) on Dec 25, 2009 at 12:19 UTC

    I had been saving my file constantly.

    It is just not containing what it should contain.

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      It is just not containing what it should contain.

      What should it contain (don't say your script, describe the bytes)?

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      Did you try running strings command on the file?. It may strip non-printable characters
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