Slightly off-topic reply, but those $texttab and $tabcolor variables are screaming to be turned into an array. I can hear them from here, "please, please, turn us into an array!"

My rule of thumb: nearly any time you have a bunch of variables with the same prefix, they should be put into either a hash or an array. In your case, the only difference between each variable name is a number, which strongly indicates an array.

Update: looking more closely, it even seems those two sets of variables are related to eachother, which makes their screams even louder. Here's what I would do for something like that:

@tabs = (
  { text => 'Intro',      color => 'bisque'      },
  { text => 'First Act',  color => 'lightyellow' },
  { text => 'Second Act', color => 'azure'       },
  { text => 'Third Act',  color => 'PeachPuff'   },
  { text => 'Fourth Act', color => 'pink'        },
  { text => 'Fifth Act',  color => 'OldLace'     },
  { text => 'Sixth Act',  color => 'wheat1'      },
  { text => 'Finish',     color => 'khaki'       },
);

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