in reply to Re: string containing characters
in thread string containing characters

Or, without a regex: 
...
    my $count = grep { -1 != index $test, $_ } @wanted;
...

[download]
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom