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jeffpflueger</author>
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Any quick tricks anyone has to simply counting the number of characters in a string?  (I can think of some long ways to do this, but there must be a quicky)&lt;p&gt;

Jeff Pflueger - Struggling Perl knowledge sponge</field>
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