Substring ranges

For an array section with a substring range, each element in the result is the designated character substring of the corresponding element of the array section. The rightmost array name or component name must be of type character.

PROGRAM SUBSTRING
TYPE DERIVED
  CHARACTER(10) STRING(5)       ! Each structure has 5 strings of 10 chars.
END TYPE DERIVED
TYPE (DERIVED) VAR, ARRAY(3,3)  ! A variable and an array of derived type.

VAR%STRING(:)(1:3) = 'abc'      ! Assign to chars 1-3 of elements 1-5.
VAR%STRING(3:)(4:6) = '123'     ! Assign to chars 4-6 of elements 3-5.

ARRAY(1:3,2)%STRING(3)(5:10) = 'hello'
                                ! Assign to chars 5-10 of the third element in
                                ! ARRAY(1,2)%STRING, ARRAY(2,2)%STRING, and
END                             ! ARRAY(3,2)%STRING