Hi, I have a .txt file that reads like this: Name1 4-6, 72-109, 304-391 Name2 7-93, 101-110, 143-155, 167-500 ..etc I need to count the number of values across all the ranges for each name. So name1 would be: 4-6 = 3, 72-109 = 38, 304-391 =88 3 + 38 + 88 = 129 values in name1 I need to carry this out on 24,000 lines, anyone recomend a simple way using awk, C, Fortran or Python? Thankyou