f90 namelist

File "nameList_1.conf" : 

&nameList_1
    ! comments allow
    name1='11111111111'
    name2='22222222222'
    size=4     !! To define size of dynamic array in namelist block 2
/

&nameList_2
    ! initialize array in namelist
    strArr='asfd' 'fdsf' '23232' 'sfss'
/

test.f90

  character(len=10) :: name1
  character(len=10) :: name2
  integer :: size

  !! Use size from nameList_1 to allocate space for strArr
  !! This is to make code more robostic
  character(len=10) , dimension(:), allocatable ::strArr  

  NAMELIST /nameList_1/name2, name1, size    ! order of keywords is NOT important
  NAMELIST /nameList_2/strArr

  READ(*,NML=nameList_1)    ! read name list block 1 from command line via "<"
  print  *, name1
  print  *, name2
  print  *, size
  allocate(strArr(size))

  ! open(8,file="nameList_1.conf", status='OLD', recl=80, delim='APOSTROPHE')
  ! read(8,NML=nameList_2)    ! read name list from a file
  ! close(8)      !!! also can read namelist block 2 via file

  READ(*,NML=nameList_2)    ! read name list from a file
  print  *, strArr
  deallocate(strArr)

Run
$ .a.out    <   nameList_1.conf