csplit/wc
$ cat junk
--------------------------------------------
Joe Moglia,  Ameritrade - CEO   [3]

--------------------------------------------
Thank you, Donna. Good morning, everybody and welcome to our last conf
+erence call for Ameritrade as a stand-alone entity and for our very, 
+very first conference call for TD Ameritrade.


--------------------------------------------


Randy MacDonald,  Ameritrade - CFO   [13]


--------------------------------------------

There's one other element that makes it easier which is that Waterhous
+e outsources their clearing to ADP and we've had -- this is our eight
+h integration and we've gone through that with ADP a number of times 
+now. So we have a pretty well worn cookbook on how to do that.
------------------------------------------------------------

$ csplit -z junk "/^-+$/" "{*}"
82
233
91
317
61

$ wc --words xx*
  7 xx00
 31 xx01
  7 xx02
 52 xx03
  1 xx04
 98 total

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The word counts are off by one since --- is included in the files.

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