There's a difference between setting $/ to "\n\n" and and empty string. In this case, the empty string would probably be better. Also your regex line is far too complicated. I'd write this code as follows:

$/ = '';  # set to grab whole paragraphs, not lines
my @paras = <DATA>;
my $whatever = qr/paragraph/;
for (@paras) {
    print if /$whatever/m;
}

__DATA__
This is 
the first 
paragraph

And paragraph
two is here

Here is the 
third paragraph
to wrap it up

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In reply to Re: Re: Isn't there a print line function? by davorg
in thread Isn't there a print line function? by brassmon_k

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