in reply to binary string

This seems to give the answer you want. I believe you only want to increment the count if one of the 2-bit values is '00', not count every '00'.

$ perl -le ' -> $count = 0; -> for ( 0 .. 127 ) -> { -> ( $d, $c, $b, $a ) = -> map 0 + $_, sprintf( q{%08b}, $_ ) =~ m{(..)(..)(..)(..)}; -> $count ++ unless $a and $b and $c and $d; -> } -> print $count;' 101 $

I hope this is useful.

Cheers,

JohnGG