e output array. if
            NULLS='return' adjacent delimiters create an empty element
            in the output ARRAY. If NULLS='ignoreend' then only
            trailing delimiters at the right of the string are ignored.
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EXAMPLES</h2>
<p>Sample program: </p><pre class="fragment"> program demo_split
 use M_strings, only: split
 character(len=*),parameter     :: &amp;
 &amp; line='  aBcdef   ghijklmnop qrstuvwxyz  1:|:2     333|333 a B cc    '
 character