A basic question about the counter

Hello, here I have some part of my code. The thing is I want to count the code after 'else'. I can put counter, yes but It counts the total usage of that line. I want to see how many times it is being used in each row of the matris 'vertices'. I mean seperately for each row.

for M=1:m                                                                  %color
   for d=1:D
    if  abs(left_side(M,1)-vertices(d,1))<0.3  && abs(left_side(M,2)-vertices(d,2))<0.2
        if vertices(d,4)==0;
     vertices(d,4)=left_side(M,4); 
        else vertices(d,4)=(vertices(d,4)+left_side(M,4));
        end
    end
   end
end

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

counts = 0; % before loop
counts = counts + 1; % inside else part