The most important edit descriptors in F90 are given below. This table is not comprehensive.
| Iw | w places of integer data |
| Fw.d | w places of real data |
| (in decimal point notation) | |
| including d decimal places | |
| Ew.d | w places of real data |
| (in scaled number-exponent notation) | |
| including d decimal places | |
| Lw | w places of LOGICAL data |
| Aw | w places of CHARACTER data |
| A | READ: n places of CHARACTER data, |
| enough to fill the input list item | |
| WRITE: print all characters of the string | |
| wX | skip w places (for READ), or |
| insert w spaces (for PRINT, WRITE) | |
| Tn | move I/O stream pointer to position n |
| TLn | move I/O stream pointer n positions left |
| TRn | move I/O stream pointer n positions right |