Count all occurrences of characters from a given set in a string.
In the code below $CharSet is the set of characters to count. $SearchStr is the string to count them in.
my $Set = qr/[^$CharSet]/;
length join "", split $Set, $SearchStr;
Wrapped up in a rather more general sub:
sub CountSetChars
{
my $Count;
my $CharSet = shift;
my $Set = qr/[^$CharSet]/;
my $Param;
while ($Param = shift)
{
if (defined @$Param)
{map {$Count += CountSetChars ($CharSet, $_)} @$Param;}
elsif (ref $Param)
{$Count += length join "", split $Set, @$Param;}
else
{$Count += length join "", split $Set, $Param;}
}
return $Count;
}