Hey guys. Basically what I am doing is I am using a .txt file that contains a huge list of words, and importing it as a resource. Next, I'm assigning this .txt list of words to a string array, and split it (thus making it so that each word is located in a separate index). However, when I try to match the string "down", my program returns nothing. I also tried using Regex.IsMatch, however that too returns nothing.

With Regex:

namespace StringSplit_Practice
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string[] myList = Properties.Resources.dictionaryEN.ToString().Split('\n');

            string xy = "down";

            for (int x = 0; x < myList.Length; x  )
            {
                if ( Regex.IsMatch(myList[x], String.Format(@"^{0}$", xy)) == true)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Match Found!");
                    Console.WriteLine("Dictionary Value: {0}", myList[x]);
                    break;
                }
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Without Regex:

namespace StringSplit_Practice
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
       {
            string[] myList = Properties.Resources.dictionaryEN.ToString().Split('\n');

            string str = "down";

           for (int x = 0; x < myList.Length; x  )
            {
                if ((String.Compare(myList[x], str) == 0))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Match Found!");
                    Console.WriteLine("Dictionary Value: {0}", myList[x]);
                    Console.WriteLine("Input Value: {0}", str);
                    break;
                }
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}