note moritz <blockquote>I think I must somewhere set the counters to 0, but the positions I tried just made the script worse... </blockquote> <p>If you want to count the number of symbols per line or record, you must reset the counters before counting the symbols in each line/record.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-616540"> [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed] </div></div> 1007821 1007821