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## Edit Descriptors
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Recall `10 FORMAT("I have", I2, "apples")`. `I2` is an edit descriptor specifying an "Integer edit" of width 2: when we `READ(*, 10)`, expect an integer with at most two digits; when we `WRITE(*, 10)`, we print out an integer of at most two digits.
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Recall `10 FORMAT("I have", I2, "apples")`. `I2` is an edit descriptor specifying an *Integer Edit* of width 2: when we `READ(*, 10)`, we expect an integer represented by at most two characters; when we `WRITE(*, 10)`, we print out an integer of at most two characters.
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Simply, edit descriptors describe "edits" that modify how we will either read from or write to different files. A good understanding of how `FORMAT` works involves understanding a good deal of what edit descriptors are available to us:
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