$ cat foo.f90 PROGRAM foo IMPLICIT NONE CHARACTER(len=10) name,var
NAMELIST /input/ var OPEN(unit=1,file="input.tmp",delim='apostrophe',status='unknown') READ(1,NML=input) CLOSE(1) OPEN(unit=1,file="toto.tmp",status='old') READ(1,*) name CLOSE(1) WRITE(*,*) name END PROGRAM foo $ gfortran-4.0 foo.f90 $ cat input.tmp &INPUT var='not ' / $ cat toto.tmp good $ a.out not good Well, if it's written... So, for some reason the value of 'var' is concatenated to that of name. This is also the case when reading a number from 'toto.tmp' instead of a string. In that case the correct read number appears concatenated to some other number (corresponding to 'var' presumably). The problem does not occur when the last variable of the namelist is not a character type. $ gfortran-4.0 -v Using built-in specs. Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-4.0.0/configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/gcc-4.0-1 --enable-languages=c,f95 --with-gmp=/usr/local/stow/gmp-4.1.4 --with-mpfr=/usr/local/stow/mpfr-2.1.1 --program-suffix=-4.0 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.0 -- Summary: Wrong reading following namelist reading Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: libfortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: jg69 at le dot ac dot uk http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24416