Indesign page numbers left in chapter

Hey
I want to let the reader know how many page numbers are left in a chapter on the current page.
For instance your in chapter 1 on page 10 of 50

The last page number variable returns the last page of the document, so if you have more than one chapter and you want to report the number of pages for each chapter you'd need to set up custom text variables for each chapter with the page count, and you'd have to manually update the text in those varaibles if the page count in a chapter changes.

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