Thread: How to allocate memory for a string which its size is bigger than available RAM?

Hi!

I'm working on a program which read a file and allocate each character of the file into an array, which I used malloc to declare. But what if the file size (eg 1Gb) is bigger than my PC ram(256mb)? Is there any way to be still able to allocate all the characters to the array?

Thanks for your help!

sincerely,
Franziss