diff --git a/src/parser.c b/src/parser.c
index 7343d844..3b872cc5 100644
--- a/src/parser.c
+++ b/src/parser.c
@@ -3029,12 +3029,12 @@ chkNoDupeDotInParserDefs(ln_ctx ctx, struct json_object *parsers)
 	if(json_object_get_type(parsers) == json_type_array) {
 		const int maxparsers = json_object_array_length(parsers);
 		for(int i = 0 ; i < maxparsers ; ++i) {
-			++nParsers;
 			struct json_object *const parser
 				= json_object_array_get_idx(parsers, i);
 			struct json_object *fname;
 			json_object_object_get_ex(parser, "name", &fname);
 			if(fname != NULL) {
+				++nParsers;
 				if(!strcmp(json_object_get_string(fname), "."))
 					++nDots;
 			}
diff --git a/tests/repeat_name_dot.sh b/tests/repeat_name_dot.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3470a50d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/repeat_name_dot.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# added 2023-02-14 by Kevin Guillemot
+# This file is part of the liblognorm project, released under ASL 2.0
+
+. $srcdir/exec.sh
+
+test_def $0 "Repeat with one parser named dot"
+add_rule 'version=2'
+add_rule 'rule=:a %{"name":"numbers", "type":"repeat",
+			"parser":[
+			  {"type":"number"},
+			  {"type":"literal", "text":":"},
+			  {"name":".", "type":"number"}
+			  ],
+			"while":[
+			  {"type":"literal", "text":", "}
+			]
+       		   }% b %w:word%
+'
+execute 'a 1:2, 3:4, 5:6, 7:8 b test'
+assert_output_json_eq '{ "w": "test", "numbers": [ "2", "4", "6", "8" ] }'
+
+cleanup_tmp_files