I’m editing this function code and wondering how to implement a count function to return, along with the index and match, to writeline. Some things I’ve considered, making a LinkedList<MatchCounter> matchCounters = new LinkedList<MatchCounter>(); and passing matches into with .addlast and calling a method increment(); but I can’t get over the conversion types from regex to strings. Or calling the count method like int owTally = match.Groups["ow"].Captures.Count;

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Text.RegularExpressions;        namespace ConsoleApplication10  {  class Program {     static void Main(string[] args)     {         LinkedList<MatchCounter> matchCounters = new LinkedList<MatchCounter>();          var patterns = new[] { "ow", "ace", "dis", "ore", "rab", "rent", "com" };         var pa = new StringBuilder();         for (var i = 0; i < patterns.Length; i++)              pa.Append(@"(?=(?<p").Append(i).Append(">").Append(patterns[i]).Append("))?");           var regexx = new Regex(pa.ToString(), RegexOptions.Compiled);         Console.WriteLine("pattern: {0}", regexx);          var input = Console.ReadLine(); ;         Console.WriteLine("input: {0} ", input);          foreach (var match in regexx.Matches(input).Cast<Match>())         {              for (var i = 0; i < patterns.Length; i++)             {                 var group = match.Groups["p" + i];                 if (!group.Success)                     continue;                  Console.WriteLine("Matched pattern #{0}: '{1}' at index {2}", i, group.Value, group.Index);             }              //matchCounters.AddLast(new MatchCounter(match));         }         Console.ReadKey();     } } public class MatchCounter {     int count;     string syllable;      public MatchCounter(String Syl)     {         count = 1;         syllable = Syl;     }      public string GetSyllable()     {         return syllable;     }      public void Increment()     {         count++;     }      public int GetCount()     {         return count;     }  } 

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