Print the number of fields in each line using awk.
“,” is the field delimiter.

example.txt

GAP,5000008,344229,-0.00000873,0.00000000,0.00000000
QUAD,5000009,389633,-62.98719000,4.20363900,-14.08507000,-5.83411800,-2.50325100,-4.89406400,14.13978000,1.43138700
TRIA,5000009,389634,-120.91420000,150.57080000,-76.72402000,0.96178280,-0.36827340,1.96346300,-1.02116100,-41.11020000
QUAD,5000009,389635,-15.21044000,0.99932950,3.18402900,-0.15678900,0.23568760,-0.34962440,0.21704630,-0.38061680
QUAD,5000009,389636,1.33232100,-65.55149000,11.67951000,-0.72253810,-0.16559730,0.68029730,-0.87976630,0.07846473
BUSH,5000008,377944,107.45720000,25.92157000,3.61063300,2.17414500,0.00000000,0.00000000
BUSH,5000008,377945,108.76870000,25.35708000,3.30875900,2.66002100,0.00000000,0.00000000

ex360.txt

awk -F"," '{print NF,":",$0}' example.txt

output:

6 : GAP,5000008,344229,-0.00000873,0.00000000,0.00000000
11 : QUAD,5000009,389633,-62.98719000,4.20363900,-14.08507000,-5.83411800,-2.50325100,-4.89406400,14.13978000,1.43138700
11 : TRIA,5000009,389634,-120.91420000,150.57080000,-76.72402000,0.96178280,-0.36827340,1.96346300,-1.02116100,-41.11020000
11 : QUAD,5000009,389635,-15.21044000,0.99932950,3.18402900,-0.15678900,0.23568760,-0.34962440,0.21704630,-0.38061680
11 : QUAD,5000009,389636,1.33232100,-65.55149000,11.67951000,-0.72253810,-0.16559730,0.68029730,-0.87976630,0.07846473
9 : BUSH,5000008,377944,107.45720000,25.92157000,3.61063300,2.17414500,0.00000000,0.00000000
9 : BUSH,5000008,377945,108.76870000,25.35708000,3.30875900,2.66002100,0.00000000,0.00000000

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