Thanks. I made a few tweaks, and have also wraped a MySQL import process around it. So now it parses the log file and directly imports into MySQL.

use warnings;
use strict;
use DBI;

# Set datasource
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:host=<hostname>;database=<dbname>"
            . ";port=<portnumber>";

# Connect to database 
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,"userid","password");
print "Status: Connected to MySQL.\n";

my $filename = $ARGV[0];

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/) 
    {
            chomp($line);
        ($dir)        = $line =~ /New Dir\s+(?:[0-9]+|[0-9]+?\.[0-9]+?
+\s[a-z])\s(.*)/;
        ($file_found) = $line =~ /New File\s+(?:[0-9]+|[0-9]+?\.[0-9]+
+?\s[a-z])\s+(.*?$)/;
        ( $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("|", $ARGV[0],$txt,$nbytes,$sav_dir,$file_found).
+ "\n";
        
              my $insert = $dbh->prepare('INSERT INTO <tablename> 
                (File,Type,Size,Dir,Name) 
                    VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)') or die "Prepare failed: " . $
+dbh->errstr(); 
    
          $insert->execute($ARGV[0],$txt,$nbytes,$sav_dir,$file_found)
+ or die "Execute failed: " . $dbh->errstr(); 
    }
}
close $hin;
print "Status: Processing of $ARGV[0] complete.\n";

# Disconnect from the database
$dbh->disconnect ();
print "Status: Disconnected from MySQL.";
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