public  subroutine append_clean_flags(flags, new_flags)  
    
    Append new flags to existing flags, removing duplicates and empty flags (string version)
    Arguments
        
    
      
        | Type | Intent | Optional | Attributes |  | Name |  | 
    
        
            | character(len=:), | intent(inout), |  | allocatable | :: | flags |  | 
        
            | character(len=*), | intent(in) |  |  | :: | new_flags |  | 
    
  
    
        
      Variables
      
    
      
        | Type | Visibility | Attributes |  | Name |  | Initial |  | 
    
        
            | type(string_t), | public, | allocatable | :: | flags_array(:) |  |  |  | 
        
            | integer, | public |  | :: | i |  |  |  | 
        
            | type(string_t), | public, | allocatable | :: | new_flags_array(:) |  |  |  | 
    
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Source Code
    subroutine append_clean_flags(flags, new_flags)
    character(:), intent(inout), allocatable :: flags
    character(*), intent(in) :: new_flags
    type(string_t), allocatable :: flags_array(:), new_flags_array(:)
    integer :: i
    call tokenize_flags(flags, flags_array)
    call tokenize_flags(new_flags, new_flags_array)
    call append_clean_flags_array(flags_array, new_flags_array)
    do i = 1, size(flags_array)
        flags = flags // " " // flags_array(i)%s
    end do
end subroutine append_clean_flags