Quantum edit statements contain a Quantum keyword and other texts and numbers. Statements in the edit section can generally start in any column, although comments and continuation characters must start in column 1. A line may contain one or more statements, as long as each statement is separated by a semicolon.

Edit statements may be preceded by a label number of up to five digits allowing them to be referenced by other parts of the program.

This example add the number in column 56 to those in columns 57 and 58 and saving the result in a variable called ‘total’. If this value is greater than 8, the program goes to statement 100; otherwise it continues with the statement immediately after the if line.