Adding contents of text file to the code

[Chris001]

Hello, I have a text file, which looks like this:

1=Hello
2=Bye
3=Tomorrow
4=Yesterday
5=Sunday
etc
etc
etc

If my application returns a "3" then it extracts the text file from the application (resource file), reads it and shows the corresponding text (in this case "Tomorrow").

I'd like to get rid of the text file and add the list of text to the code, but I don't know how to do this. Basically I want to check the list internally for the number and show the corresponding text.

Do I need to add the list as one huge string or how would I do this?