In programming, a variable-length array (or VLA) is an array data structure of automatic storage duration whose length is determined at run time (instead of at compile time).
Programming languages that support VLAs include Ada, Algol 68 (for non-flexible rows), APL, C99 (and subsequently in C11 relegated to a conditional feature which implementations aren't required to support; on some platforms, could be implemented previously with alloca or similar functions) and C# (as unsafe-mode stack-allocated arrays), COBOL, Fortran 90, J.
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