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interesting.

sorry for renaming that variable. i changed nothing, but its name. I found a hint in an old bug-report, where LaTeX had problems with special characters in counter variable names. I decided to rewrite and not just copy the code- just for sure.

i tried the snipplet on another machine ...

damn. fail! i understand how it is meant to work, but the above example does not work for me :/

...is it possible that my LaTeX-installation sucks somehow? i executed pdflatex in a loop, so that the reference from the aux-file can be used, but all i get is a ??? and this over and over ...

totcount does not get installed on my linux-distribution by default. i consider this a disadvantage as i am looking for a robust solution.

i resumed my search with keywords from your answer and found what i was looking for here :

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scrlfile}

\newcounter ...

I really need help, as this problem took me hours and I feel something like out-of-options :/

i have a table in which a calculation is done by LaTeX. Actually I am just feeding a module with values and have neither influence of what is calculated nor do I know how exactly it works. I just know from ...