Part 2 is pretty easy so here's one approach.

#!/usr/bin/env perl 
use strict;
use warnings;

my %status;

while (<DATA>) {
    next unless /@/;
    my @fields = split;
    $status{$fields[1]} = $fields[0];
}

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper (\%status);

__DATA__
       date:17/4/2000
       version: 4.1.0
       -more info-
       -more info-
------------------------------------------------------------------
Status      id          not important info (two columns)       name
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Run        1234 @           ...                                foo1
Wait       54123 @          ...                                foo2
-----------------------------------------------------------------

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This should give you enough to work on regarding point 1.

In reply to Re: Parsing output with a special format by hippo
in thread Parsing output with a special format by ovedpo15

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