need help with meshing

Good mourning, i have a question, i need to draw a geometry and mesh it, and then turn the mesh datas (nodes and their coordinates, elements and their connectivities ... etc) in a data file to use it in a program written on fortran or another language i want to read the datas from a file to fill out victors and matrices within my program, i point out that it is for a fracture problem, please may any one suggest some free or open source software to to 2D or 3D meshing with a suited FE for fracture problems under quasi static load. My pleasur