There is a limit of 5000 statements in a script, for example when I process an on load or submit script.

In an earlier forum post I found this text:

But if you have a "for each" loop within your action script, the number of times the tasks are executed depends on "the number of records iterated x the number of tasks".  For example, if you have 500 records to be iterated and 3 tasks, the total number of executable statements for this action is 1500.  It is not the number of times they are triggered by users or it is not a daily/monthly limit. 

That is clear. But I would like to understand this a little better because I think I am running into the limit where I did not expect it.

For example if I do a for-each such as the one following but I provide a criteria to filter out the records:

for each rec in formtable  [field == "somevalue"]

{

do some task

}

When there are 500 records but for only 25 of them the criteria matches does it count 500 tasks here or does it only count 25?

Also is there a way to debug and find out how many statements have been executed in a script?

Greetings,

Rob