Thread: Max Array?

I am reading data from a file and i need to read in a lot of data, approaching millions of lines proabably.

the problem i have is i have declared a struct to store the data but i have found that the maximum array of structs i can have is:

users db[28725] ;

Anyone know why this is and how i can change it to accept a larger amount of data. my struct is simple:

Code:

struct users
{
	string user ;
	char ip[20] ;
} ;

Thanks Guys

Use dynamic memory allocation. Its pretty simple. You just determine how many structs you are going to require then allocate that much room...

Code:

// init size to whatever you need at run-time
users *pUsers = new users[ size ];
if( !pUsers )
  // couldn't allocate memory...


.
.
.

delete [] pUsers;

Thanks MrWizard dynamic memory allocation worked a treat.

Salem: Interesting to know that, any idea how you can change the limits imposed by the OS/Compiler or are they set.

Thanks a lot for your help.