my $reference_image = new GD::Image(100,100); my @colornames; { my $goodline = qr/^\d/; open my $rgbdat, '<', '/usr/X11/lib/X11/rgb.txt' or die $!; while (<$rgbdat>) { /$goodline/ or next; my @dat = split " ", $_, 4; my $color = pop @dat; $colornames[getindex($reference_image, @dat)] = $color; } close $rgbdat or die $!; }