[RESOLVED] How can we hold an array has 20 MILLION PARAMETERS in VB?

[BlueRose]

To LaVolpe

i tried to write file but i takes very long time and allocates very very much place (250MB for 3% of calculation) for text file this means it is not useful for this purpose output of this text file like below

0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.000462837667985896
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.000331897303655402
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.000221273850109942
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.000149302133905207
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.000102348957119539
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.0000575684975376337
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.0000291431488864269
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.0000154164786133479
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.0000084739858499305
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.00000483242850838852
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.00000285118016152584
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.00000173468560369513
0.0028001110111966269477543538:0 1.3 -0.6 -3:0.00000108878362399447

maybe it must be written in binary to hold less space but also this will not be useful


To szlamany

you can be right also i was thought this dont know the way because i am not familiar changing array to function

could you show an example or explain this property?

it sounds good at first sight but need explain in detail for me

[szlamany]

You have several issues to overcome...

First - you need to examine how you are going to do random access to a file. Using a sequential access text file is not going to work for you.

Then you need to be able to convert a DOUBLE in memory to it's 8-byte string representation - as you want to store the 8 byte value - not some displayed values of a number.

I've never done either of those two things with VB - but I'm sure it's possible.