Size of Arrays

I have 4 gigabits of memory but in Xcode the largest array I have been able to assign is [25000][81]. I am working with Sudoku puzzles. That does not fill my memory how do I set larger arrays? Help please.
Warren Trammell

Moved thread to more appropriate forum.

I'm not a professional programmer (nor do I even like ObjC) but what kind of array are you trying to create? Some sample code would also help.

Allowable array size

I am trying to read into memory a large group of Sudoku puzzles by declaring an int array[x][81] where x is 49151 but the largest Xcode will allow is something under 25000.
Warren

Have you tried using NSArray instead?

#include <iostream>

FILE *reed;

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
int a, b, array[25879][81];

if((reed = fopen("//Users//warren//documents//misc//sudoku17","r")) == NULL)
{
printf("\n Can't open input file for reading:");
exit(1);
} // insert code here...
for(a = 0; a < 25000; a++)
{
for(b = 0; b < 81; b++)
{
fscanf(reed,"%i",&array[a]);
}
}
return 0;
}
That is the largest array Xcode will accept.It balks at 25880.
Changing the name of the variable probably will not help.
Warren

IMO you are taking the long way around. Instead of trying to use an array with humongous indexes, why not just use a lightweight database like SQLITE and dump your puzzles into that? It looks like you are trying to do exactly one of the things that a DB is good for. For one thing, you wouldn't have to load that huge array every time you ran the program - it would just be setting there on disk waiting to be used.

If you've mastered Xcode, sqlite3 would be nothing to learn. Or even the open source version of MySql.

Just an idea.