I process lots of output from Fortran programs, and it generally appears that the output from these programs has a leading space, i.e., character column 1 is blank. Consider a short program leading.f:

      program leading
      print *, "<-- What's that space for?"
      end program leading

Has the output

 <-- What's that space for?

(yes, there is one space character at the beginning). My question is contained in the program.

formatting fortran whitespace
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