C++ count matches regex function that works with both char and wchar_t?

Question

With the answer from this question I was able to create a function that uses regex to find and replace in strings that works with both char and wchar_t

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Answer 1

std::regex_iterator is a class template too

template
std::size_t countMatches(const CharT* find, const CharT* str)
{
    std::basic_string text(str);
    std::basic_regex reg(find);
    typedef typename std::basic_string::iterator iter_t;
    return distance(std::regex_iterator(text.begin(), text.end(), reg),
                    std::regex_iterator());
}