I'm trying to figure out how to populate the databse with content from the Read_File sub. And how can i integrate the Scan_File sub into my program so that instead of those print line in the Read_File sub it populate the databse.

Your code is not huge, but it is still too much for me to really want to read it in detail. At a cursory glance, however, I notice some issues:

• no warnings;
• unchecked open's and opendir's;
• lots of variables not declared as close as possible to their usage;
• unnecessary C-style for loops;
• a clumsy, long sequence of elsif's;
• etc.

However you have two orthogonal issues here:

• parsing a text file;
• push the gathered data into a database.

Once you figure out how to do both, you can "link" them together: gathering data for putting it into the database won't be any different than doing so for printing it and putting that stuff into the database won't be terribly different than putting into it any other kind of data.

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