If you want to use Perl for this task, why not using the DBI?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;

my $db       = 'dbname';
my $user     = 'Caron';
my $password = 'secret!';
my $filename = shift 
    or die "filename required!\n";

my $dbh = DBI->connect(
        "dbi:mysql:$db",
        $user,
        $password,
        {RaiseError=>1, PrintError=>0})
    or die $DBI::errstr;

open FILE, "<$filename" or die;

{
    local $/ = ";\n";

    while (<FILE>) {
        eval {$dbh->do($_)};
        if ($@) {
            warn "Error at line $. ($DBI::errstr)\nstatement: $_\n";
            # eventually, issue a die call here
        }
    }

}

close FILE;
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This way, you can have better control of the errors.

HTH