English sentence as input and translates it into Textese - vb.net

Question

working on a project where I input a text file and write a sentence in an "English" text box and with a click of a button the program translates it into "textese" type of language. It will only change words listed in the text file and ignore everything else. Below is the code I have, and wondering what is going wrong, it fails to run and highlights my If Then statement, so I think my issue is there but not sure what. A few examples of what is in the text file and how they are ordered / separated by a comma.
anyone,ne1
are,r
ate,8
band,b&
be,b
before,b4
busy,bz
computer,puter
Public Class frmTextese
Private Sub btnTranslate_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnTranslate.Click
Dim inputData() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines("Textese.txt")
Dim english As Integer = 0
Dim englishSentence As String = txtEnglish.Text
Dim result() As String = englishSentence.Split(" "c)
Do While english < (result.Length - 1)
Dim line As String
Dim data() As String
Dim englishArray As String
Dim texteseArray As String
For i As Integer = 0 To (inputData.Length - 1)
line = inputData(i)
data = line.Split(","c)
englishArray = line.Split(","c)(0)
texteseArray = line.Split(","c)(1)
If result(i).StartsWith(englishArray(i)) Then
If englishArray(i).Equals(texteseArray(i)) Then
result(i) = texteseArray(i)
End If
End If
txtTextese.Text = result(i)
Next
Loop
End Sub
End Class

Answer 1

You only need to compare result(i) against englishArray. Also, your while loop was an endless loop. When searching the textese array, once you find a match, you can quit searching and go on to the next english word. Finally, you should take care to use variable names that describe their purpose.
Look at this code (untested). I made the string comparison case insensitive, but that is not required.
Private Sub btnTranslate_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnTranslate.Click
'Get all the textese definitions
Dim inputData() As String = IO.File.ReadAllLines("Textese.txt")
Dim english As Integer = 0
Dim englishSentence As String = txtEnglish.Text
Dim result() As String = englishSentence.Split(" "c)
Do While english < (result.Length - 1)
Dim line As String
Dim data() As String
Dim englishArray As String
Dim texteseArray As String
For i As Integer = 0 To (inputData.Length - 1)
'Split the textese entry into two parts
line = inputData(i)
data = line.Split(","c)
englishArray = data(0)
texteseArray = data(1)
'Compare the word in the english sentence against the word in the textese array
'using a case insensitive comparison (not required)
If result(i).Equals(englishArray, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) Then
'Replace the word in the sentence with its textese version
result(i) = texteseArray
'If we found the word, there is no need to continue searching, so
'skip to the next word in the english sentence
Exit For
End If
Next
'Increment the loop counter to avoid an endless loop
english = english + 1
Loop
'Take the elements of the result array and join them together, separated by spaces
txtTextese.Text = String.Join(" ", result)
End Sub