I was trying to duplicate what the one liner does, so I wanted to keep it as a string.
I finally figured it out: preserve $1 and use "if" instead of "while":

#!/usr/bin/perl

# full script the following one liner:
# $ echo -e "abc\ndef\nghi\n" | perl -wlne '! /def/ and print "$_";'
# abc
# ghi

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

my $C;
my $B = "";
my $A = "abcdef
fhijkl
mnopqr
";

while ( $A =~ m{(.+)}g ) {
$B .= "$1\n" unless $1 =~ /ijk/;
# $B .= "$1\n" unless $1 =~ /xyz/;
}
print "\$B = \n$B\n";


$B = "";
while ( $A =~ m{(.+)}g ) {
$C = $1;
$B .= "$C\n" if $C =~ /ijk/;
}
print "\n\$B = \n$B\n";

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$B =
abcdef
mnopqr


$B =
fhijkl

Thank you for all the help! -T

In reply to Re^3: Regex match on implicit default variable ($_) in a script, not a one liner by Todd Chester
in thread Regex match on implicit default variable ($_) in a script, not a one liner by Todd Chester

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