hi
suppose every letter in the alphabet have a value as in the pseudo science of numerology, but not necessarily from 1 to 26
suppose i have a long sentence such as "aabceezazerrfde" and some one have told me that he wants to add just the values of some letters of choice as "aez" , the values of these letters are (7,2,26). i have the following approach, but i feel it is clumsy , are there other appproaches.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $str = "aabceezazerrfde";
my $wanted = "aez";
my @values = (7,2,26);
my $counter = 0;
my $tot = 0;
my $letter = '';
my $indx;
while ($counter < length($str) )
{
 $letter = substr($str, $counter, 1);
 $indx = index($wanted, $letter);
if ( $indx != -1 )
 {
  $tot = $tot + $values[$indx];
  }
 $counter++;
 }
 print $tot;

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the output is 81

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