fortran adjustl

The function ADJUSTL in FORTRAN is used to left-adjust a character string. It removes any leading spaces from the string and then returns the modified string.

For example, consider the following code snippet:

character(10) str
str = '   hello'
str = ADJUSTL(str)
print *, str

In this case, the variable 'str' is initialized with a string that has three leading spaces. The ADJUSTL function is then used to left-adjust the string, which removes the spaces, and returns the modified string. The output of this code will be:

hello     

Note that the original string ' hello' was 10 characters long, but the modified string 'hello ' is also 10 characters long. This is because the ADJUSTL function only removes leading spaces, and does not change the total length of the string.