I'm new to Perl. I am trying to write out an animated .gif file using Image::Magick. The directions I have seen say to use <*.png> to pick up all the .png originals from a directory. The problem is that I don't want them in the order they appear in the directory (alphabetical). I therefore put them in an array, in the order I need for the output to look correct. However, when the animated .gif is produced, anytime there is a repeat of a .png image, the next frame in the animated .gif is incorrect - it will only include the top portion of the image. However, if I fool it by adding a blank image to the mix, after each of the input images, it works fine. My question is: what kind of regex would I need that would look at the array and only add the 66.png blank image after each Repeating numbers instead of after each image. Or is there a better way to fix the script for Image::Magick not to stutter on my array of png inputs?? Any help you can offer to a new kid?

Here's the basic script...(before I added use strict etc) 

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
use Image::Magick;
srand();
$ext = ".gif";
$front = "FL";
$numb = (int (rand(6969) + 1));
$name = qq~$front$numb$ext~;

my $image = Image::Magick->new;

@files = ("12.png","06.png","06.png","03.png","07.png","07.png");
foreach $one (@files) {
$image->Read($one); }

$image->Set
(
    loop=>'0',
    delay=>'40',
    adjoin=>'True',
    dispose=>'2'
);
$image->Write( "$name" );

This produces an animated .gif, but with a stutter
in it after the first repeat of 06.png.

If I change the array to add a blank image (66.png) after
each image, this works fine:
@files = ("12.png","66.png","06.png","66.png","06.png","66.png",
"03.png","66.png","07.png","66.png","07.png");

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Update: Thanks very much - that works !

In reply to Help with Image Magic by gringocharlie

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