I needed to do this, and checked here and elsewhere for a method. Many had loops, some hashes , most multi-line.

I came up with (perhaps not exclusively, as was The Calculus!) this approch to counting the # of chars in a string.

This counts integers, for example: 

 my $x = () = /\d\D*/g;

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The trick being /something(0-many in the set of !something)/as many as it finds..... ..so like, for letter A, <code> my $As = () = /A^A*/g

We dont need no stinking loops, hashes, etc..

Just an idear I had.. Probably some others had it to but I didn't find it in searches....

caveat- this may not work in dbg. If not, try it outside dbg and it should be OK.

In reply to How to count the number of chars in a string by misterperl

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