>I was also thinking in the direction of somehow using a different one dimensional array and then copy the content of it into the big array, but I'm not certain exactly how to do this.

Don't think that that would work due to the way the values get stored in the array - unless you want to use a loop of course

dime aa[5,2] becomes
aa[1,1]
aa[1,2] && 
aa[2,1]
aa[2,2] &&
aa[3,1]
aa[3,2] && 
aa[4,1]
aa[4,2] && 
aa[5,1]
aa[5,2] &&