store and retrieve array of chars in flash memory

Danois90:
The smart sollution would be not to load flash into RAM in order to manipulate it. The smart sollution would be to implement a function which could manipulate the flash variables on a byte-by-byte basis without buffering :wink:

Which is not possible on AVR based Arduinos without modifying the bootloader or other tricks. And flash has an estimated life cycle if 10000 writes.