• 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.

"remove space after "FIRST'" ++

But the output from your code above is:

IJK1234
Use of uninitialized value in print at F:\_wo\pl_test\733761b2.pl line
+ 16.
ABCD
Use of uninitialized value in print at F:\_wo\pl_test\733761b2.pl line
+ 16.
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...which doesn't capture the phone number.

So, perhaps one might wish to capture the phone in the manner below and avoid the uninitialized warnings re the case where "FIRST" is empty:

foreach my $item(@strings) {
  print "in ENV Not Running: " . $1 if ($item =~ /ENV\(([^)]*)\) STATU
+S\(Not Running\)/);
  $item =~ /^PRINT NAME FIRST\(([^)]*)\).* PHONE\((.+)\)/;
  if ($1 && $2) {
     print "in PRINT NAME FIRST:  $1, " . $2;
  }
}
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OUTPUT:

in ENV Not Running: IJK1234
in PRINT NAME FIRST:  ABCD, 12345678
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Note that adding the labels to the output may bollix further processing, depending on where OP is going with this.

Thank you for this. My reg expression was incorrect

Can you show us the code you have tried and actual output you get? Try making a small chunk of code the reproduces your problem. Otherwise, the best we can suggest (other than writing it for you - I am available for consulting, BTW) is to look at line 42.

Slightly modified and tested


@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 $line (@strings){
        if ($line=~/ENV\((.*?)\) STATUS\(Not Running\)/){
            print "$1\n";
        }
        if ($line=~/PRINT NAME FIRST\((.*?)\) SECOND\((.*?)\) ADDRESS\
+((.*?)\) PHONE\((.*?)\)/){
            print "$1 $4\n";
        }
}
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