title: count characters with jQuery
body: <p>I need to be able to count characters in textarea as the text is typed in, except anything that is surrounded by { }. I need to print the count below the text area. I've seen a few counters in JavaScript but am not sure how to exclude { enclosed text } from it. Do I do it on click?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea id="myInput"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  Counter: &lt;span id="charCount"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>