title: Import big files/arrays with mathematica
body: <p>I work with mathematica 8.0.1.0 on a Windows7 32bit platform. I try to import data with</p>
  
  <pre><code>Import[file,”Table”]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which works fine as long as the file (the array in the file) is small enough. But for bigger files(38MB)/array(9429 times 2052) I get the message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>No more memory available. Mathematica kernel has shut down. Try quitting other applications and then retry.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On my Windows7 64bit platform with more main memory I can import bigger files, but I think that I will have there the same problem one day when the file has grown/the array has more rows.</p>
  
  <p>So, I try to find a solution to import big files. After searching for some time, I have seen here a similar question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2370570/way-to-deal-with-large-data-files-in-wolfram-mathematica">Way to deal with large data files in Wolfram Mathematica</a>.
  But it seems that my mathematica knowledge is not good enough to adapt the suggested OpenRead, ReadList or similar to my data (see <a href="http://ge.tt/8oL9E48?c" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> the example file). 
  The problem is that I need for the rest of my program information of the array in the file, such as Dimensions, Max/Min in some columns and rows, and I am doing operations on some columns and every row.
   But when I am using e.g. ReadList, I never get the same information of the array as I have got with Import (probably because I am doing it in the wrong way).</p>
  
  <p>Could somebody here give me some advice? I would appreciate every support!</p>