allocate different amounts of memory to different dimensions of an arr

[efoss]

I'd like to index a lot of 20 character strings on 2 different numbers. I'm working with very large numbers of these character strings (32 million) and I'm running into trouble because Fortran doesn't want to let me make variables that big. I can always split things into smaller groups, but I want to avoid this as much as possible. So, I'm wondering if there's some way to allocate different amounts of memory into different dimensions of an array. Let's say I have an array with an integer in the first dimension, an integer in the second dimension, and a 20 character string in the third dimension. If I just declare this:

CHARACTER (len 20) :: array(5000,2000,1000000)

then I assume that I'm wasting a lot of memory in those first two dimensions. Is there a way for me to get around this?

Thanks.

Eric

 

[xwb]

I've posted the solution on the Belution website where you asked the same question.