insert column goes haywire, why is this doing what its doing?

[dmcgov]

I have this small snippet of code:

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the problem is that its adding 7 columns instead of 1.

can anyone provide insight for this? or is there a better way?

[dmcgov]

so after some trial and error, i got the following code to work:

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