#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; sub image_size { return unless $_[0]; my ($width, $height, $sig); if ( $_[0] =~ m/^GIF8..(....)/s ) { $sig = 'GIF'; # found GIF signature ($width, $height) = unpack( "SS", $1 ); } elsif ( $_[0] =~ m/^^\xFF\xD8.{4}JFIF/s ) { $sig = 'JPEG'; # found JPG signature ($height,$width) = unpack( "nn", $1 ) if $_[0] =~ /\xFF\xC0...(....)/s; } elsif ( $_[0] =~ /^\x89PNG\x0d\x0a\x1a\x0a/ ) { $sig = 'PNG'; # found PNG signature ($width, $height) = unpack( "NN", $1 ) if $_[0] =~ /IHDR(.{8})/s; } elsif ( $_[0] =~ /BM.{16}(.{8})/s ) { $sig = 'BMP'; # found bitmap sig ($width, $height) = unpack( "LL", $1); } return $width, $height, $sig; } sub get_file { open FILE, $_[0] or die $!; binmode FILE; local $/; my $data = ; close FILE; return $data; } for my $img ( qw( c:/sample.bmp c:/sample.jpg c:/sample.gif c:/sample.png) ) { my $data = get_file($img); my @res = image_size($data); print "$img $res[2] width $res[0] height $res[1]\n"; } __END__ c:/sample.bmp BMP width 512 height 384 c:/sample.jpg JPEG width 100 height 149 c:/sample.gif GIF width 110 height 58 c:/sample.png PNG width 256 height 192