Vim count selection and put in statusline

Dear all, I would like to know if there is some non-baroque way of, when
doing a selection of some text, set in the status line just the number of
characters in the selection (and of course, when one modifies the selection,
as moving the coursor in the visual mode) the status line should be updated
automatically. The solutions that occurred to me involve using external
commands (like wc -l) and then sending that to vim, each time I move the
selection etc. Does anyone knows a clean way of doing such a thing?

Thanks!
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