Take a look at the DBD::AnyData database driver for the Perl DBI. It has a ad_convert function which is specifically for translating between it's many supported database formats, which include DBI-supported DBMS'es and CSV format.

If all that's a little overwhelming, you could also use Perl to simply generate the SQL, then run the generated code against the database. Something like the following: (untested) 

foreach ( @lines_from_text_file )
{
    chomp ;
    my @fields = split /,/ ;
    printf( "insert into my_table values\n" .
            "( %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s )\n",
            @fields
          ) ;
}

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This doesn't take into consideration the quoting of the appropriate fields, but you get the general idea.


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