I think you want something like that:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $filename = $ARGV[0];
#$filename = 'robocopy_log.txt';

open my $hin, '<', $filename
    or die "Cannot open file /$filename/";

my @fcont = <$hin>;

my ( $dir, $txt, $nbytes, $file_found, $sav_dir, $sav_file );
foreach my $line (@fcont) {
    if ( $line =~ /New File|New Dir/ ) {
        ($dir)        = $line =~ /New Dir\s+(?:[0-9]+|[0-9]+?\.[0-9]+?
+\s[a-z])\s(.*)/;
        ($file_found) = $line =~ /New File\s+(?:[0-9]+|[0-9]+?\.[0-9]+
+?\s[a-z])\s(.*?)\s+?/;
        ( $txt, $nbytes ) = $line =~ /(New File|New Dir)\s+([0-9]+|[0-
+9]+?\.[0-9]+?\s[a-z])\s.*/;
        $sav_dir  = $dir        if $dir;
        $sav_file = $file_found if $file_found;
        $sav_dir  = !defined $sav_dir  ? q{} : $sav_dir;
        $sav_file = !defined $sav_file ? q{} : $sav_file;
        print join( "\t\t", $txt, $sav_dir, $nbytes, $sav_file ) . "\n
+";
    }
}

close $hin;

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Also look at this example, how to avoid $1, $2, ... matching parameters, you can directly assing the result to a list of variables

You also can try to put the three assignments in ony line, this is left as an exercise ;-)

In reply to Re^3: Robocopy log parsing by Anonymous Monk
in thread Robocopy log parsing by bit5nip3r

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