Instead of reading in a record at a time, this solution reads the file line by line. 'ACCOUNT-dddddd' precedes the closed date and the created date follows the closed date. So, if this data is uniform as presented, you could enter the two dates into the %data hash for the current account number. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my (%data, $acct, $close_date, $create_date);
while (<DATA>) {
    next if /^Remedy Account data:/ .. /^Remedy Case data:/;
    if (/^ACCOUNT-(\d+)/) {
        $acct = $1; 
    }
    elsif (/^ClosedDate = ([-\d :]+)/) {
        $close_date = $1;   
    }
    elsif (/^CreatedDate = ([-\d :]+)/) {
        $create_date = $1;
        $data{ $acct } = { closed => $close_date, created => $create_d
+ate}; 
    }
}
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper \%data;

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This prints

$VAR1 = {
          '09782' => {
                       'created' => '2007-10-23 21:10:10',
                       'closed' => '2007-10-26 16:31:53'
                     }
        };

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Hope this helps :-)

In reply to Re: using regex with records by Cristoforo
in thread using regex with records by Anonymous Monk

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