i wasnt able to get apache::parselog to work

From this comment and your data sample, I have to guess that you aren't using a standard log format, right? Can you show us a sample of your log data and/or the CustomLog directive you use in your Apache configuration? Without that, we can't help you slice and dice it in Perl.

is there a simple way with perl to parse the file and have the ability to pass a file name as an argument?

Yes. Something like the following might work well enough for you depending, of course, on what you haven't told us yet... 

#!perl -lan
BEGIN { 
    $SUM = $N = 0; 
    $file = shift; 
} 
if ($F[1] eq $file) { 
    my ($secs) = ($F[2] =~ /^(\d+)/); 
    $SUM += $secs; $N++  
} 

END { 
    print "Average: " , $SUM/ $N;
}

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Put that in a file and run it with two arguments, the full pathname of the file you want stats on and the pathname of the file your parsed log data (i.e. the sample you provided) is in. Something like: 
perl get_stats /manual/misc/perf-tuning.html log.data

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-sauoq
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In reply to Re: Obtaining Apache logfile stats? by sauoq
in thread Obtaining Apache logfile stats? by mvam

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