fortran 90 , write format

[arkangel]

Hi

I am using ifort 9.0 and i am using write to a textfile , for one reason,the write sentence adds an extra blank space at the beginning of the line
this statement
write(10,*) '12345678'

produces in the unit 10 file
" 12345678" (ignore the quotation marks)instead of
"12345678"

how can i erase the exta space?

[arkangel]

to make the idea clear

i dont know the lenght of my line

[xtacocorex]

FORTRAN does that, you have to specify an actual format to remove the space.

You would need to do the following for the numbers:

WRITE(10,A8) '12345678'Since you added the ' around, the formatting is for characters.

[roncrump]

I believe that:

write(10,'(a)') '12345678'
would do your job - that is without a character string/line length parameter.

Ron.