I feel like I'm almost there:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $filename = $ARGV[0];
open(INFILE,  "<",  $filename) or die "Cannot open $ARGV[0]";

my(@fcont) = <INFILE>;

$dir =~ m/[a-z]:\\.*?\n/g;
         
foreach $line (@fcont) {
    
    if ($line =~ m/(New File|New Dir)\s+([0-9]+|[0-9].[0-9]\s[a-z]?)\s
++(.*?\n)/g) 
     {
         print join("|",$ARGV[0],$1,$dir,$2,$3);
     }
}
close( INFILE );

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but of course it tells me $line and $dir requires explict package name. What am I mising? This will pull out all entries that are New Dir or New File, but I was hoping to bring down my New Dir match so that each New File had its correpondinf directory

In reply to Re: Robocopy log parsing by bit5nip3r
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