Hi: As I explained in my first post: "In the first program, you read 4 observations and WORK.A has 4 observations and 1 variable or column called ID, as shown in the screen shot below. Your program that creates WORK.B has 3 explicit OUTPUT statements and makes 3 new variables, ID1, ID2, and, ID3. There are no controls in the program to restrict when OUTPUT occurs, so for EVERY observation in WORK.A, you will write 3 observations into WORK.B, for a total of 12 observations, as shown below. The variables in WORK.B are ID, ID1, ID2 and ID3, but for every row, the values are the same as for the original value of ID, so if you look at the PROC PRINT for WORK.B you will see that observations 1-3 are all for ID=1; observations 4-6 are all for ID=2; observations 7-9 are for ID=3 and observations 10-12 are for ID=4. I suspect this is not what you want." The first program is writing out 3 observations for every single observation in work.a. cynthia
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