[ale] Perl and $_ ?

[dsj at dsj.net (David S. Jackson)]

Okay, I'm just chugging through "Learning Perl" and came to Chapter 6 and
the $_ variable.  I thought I understood it, but now that I'm chugging
through Chapter 7 (Regular Expressions) I'm not so sure.

Could someone explain it to me in their own words with simple examples,
maybe? 

TIA!  :-)

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