Perhaps some monks will decrie some inefficiencies in my code, but I think this works fairly well and has been tested: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use POSIX; # added after observing BrowserUK's code

my (%schedule, $backup_type);

my $today = strftime( '%A', localtime ); # changed after observing Bro
+wserUK's code

while (my $line = <DATA>) {
  chomp $line;
  my $count = 0 ;
  if ($line =~ /schedule:\s+(\w+)/i){
    my $count++;
    $backup_type = $1;
  }
  if ( $line =~ /(\w+day)\s+(\d{2}\:\d{2}\:\d{2})/i ){
    $schedule{$1} = {
      'backup_type' => $backup_type, 
      'time' => $2
      };
  }
}

printf "Today is %s and the backup type is %s to begin at %s\n",
  $today, $schedule{$today}->{'backup_type'}, $schedule{$today}->{'tim
+e'};

__DATA__
...etc

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So you're making a hash of hashrefs - the key of the parent hash is the day of the week, and then "type" and "time" are accessible through each day of the week.

Any improvements are welcomed. I may be playing fast and loose with the regex to match the day of the week, depending on what else is in your __DATA__.

--Kozz

edit: removed unneeded /g modifier from regexes, modified code to get current DOW as seen in BrowserUK's code (I learn something every day)

In reply to (Kozz) Parse into hash of hashrefs by Kozz
in thread Positional Pattern-Matching by blink

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