It's very cold, and my head hurts, so I can't quite parse the purpose of the program. But I can help you make it much simpler and shorter, and more correct (with strictures).

To follow your general program logic, but with the help of File::Find::Rule and File::DosGlob, the latter of which is a core module: 

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings
use autodie; # errors with open, chdir, etc are now fatal

use File::Find::Rule;
use File::DosGlob 'glob';

my $search = shift || 'c:/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/newbatch
+2' ;
my $outfile = 'c:/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/newbatch/log.txt
+';

open my $outf, '>', $outfile;

for my $dir (File::Find::Rule->dir->in($search)) {
    for my $file ( <*>) {     
        my $path = "$dir\\$_";
        print " $path\n";
        if (-f $path) {
            if ($file ne 'empty.txt' and $file ne 'sample.txt') {
                unless (-s $path) {
                    print $outf "Warning: $path has size ZERO\n";
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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OR, to be more concise: 

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use File::Find::Rule;
use File::DosGlob 'glob';

my ($search) = @ARGV or die "need a directory to search";

sub found {
    my ($name, $path, $full) = @_;
    warn "Warning: $full has size ZERO" # outputs to STDERR
        unless $name ~~ ['empty.txt', 'sample.txt']; # Perl v5.10+
#        unless $name eq 'empty.txt' or $name eq 'sample.txt';
}

File::Find::Rule->file->empty->exec(\&found)->in($search);

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In reply to Re: Perl Log File Help by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl Log File Help by Anonymous Monk

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