It would be far more use to you (and indeed, us) if you were to provide ...

• More detail of the context e.g. CLI/file parsing etc.
• examples of your attempts thus far

Having said that, this may do something like what you're after (untested code alert)..

my @strings = (
"ENV(ABCD1234) STATUS(Running)",
"ENV(IJK1234) STATUS(Not Running)",
"PRINT NAME FIRST(ABCD) SECOND(EFGH) ADDRESS('') PHONE(12345678)",
"PRINT NAME FIRST() SECOND(WXYD) ADDRESS('') PHONE(87654321)"
);

foreach (@strings) {
  print $1 if /ENV\(([^)]*)\) STATUS\(Not Running\)/;
  print $1,$2 if /^PRINT NAME FIRST\(([^)]*)\).* PHONE\([^)]*\)/;
}
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Update:

Modded RE (to remove space after 'FIRST' - thanx to ww.

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