https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/varables-and-obs-in-two-different-areas/m-p/47742#M12853 Could you please be more specific how your data is stored, and how you wish your result set would be like. PROC CONTENTS and some example data would help to understand your issue.<BR /> <BR /> /some Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:01:19 GMT LinusH 2008-09-18T11:01:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/varables-and-obs-in-two-different-areas/m-p/47741#M12852 I have a 300 variables in one text doument and the observations for this variables are in text how can i read both these variables Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:12:28 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/varables-and-obs-in-two-different-areas/m-p/47741#M12852 R_Win 2008-09-18T09:12:28Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/varables-and-obs-in-two-different-areas/m-p/47742#M12853 Could you please be more specific how your data is stored, and how you wish your result set would be like. PROC CONTENTS and some example data would help to understand your issue.<BR /> <BR /> /some Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:01:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/varables-and-obs-in-two-different-areas/m-p/47742#M12853 LinusH 2008-09-18T11:01:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/varables-and-obs-in-two-different-areas/m-p/47743#M12854 It is not necessary to have two identical posts in the same forum.<BR /> <BR /> <BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=3870&amp;tstart=0" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=3870&amp;tstart=0</A> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:31:37 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/varables-and-obs-in-two-different-areas/m-p/47743#M12854 sbb 2008-09-18T13:31:37Z