Custom Post Types: Can you add more than one Variable to a Column?

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(Since my custom post type is a little long, I’ve for the sake of simplicity, copied over a dummy one)

What I am trying to do is, say I describe a few “similar” variables, i.e. price1, price2, price3, etc. would I be able to stack those values in a single column (as opposed to showing it over 3 columns), i.e. $price1<br />$price2<br />$price3 ? The reasons are purely aesthetic as the custom post type columns would get really crowded quickly otherwise.

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Thank you! (like said, the part below isn’t the actual code I’m using, but I thought it would be good if someone else would be searching the same thing) 

add_filter("manage_edit-product_columns", "prod_edit_columns");
add_action("manage_posts_custom_column",  "prod_custom_columns");

function prod_edit_columns($columns){
  $columns = array(
   "cb" => "<input type="checkbox" />",
   "title" => "Product Title",
   "description" => "Description",
   "price1" => "Price1",
   "catalog" => "Catalog",
  );

  return $columns;
}

function prod_custom_columns($column){
  global $post;
  switch ($column)
  {
   case "description":
    the_excerpt();
    break;
   case "price": // Now here I have to define the field, but how would I drag in other subsequent price fields?
    $custom = get_post_custom();
    echo $custom["price"][0];
    break;
   case "catalog":
    echo get_the_term_list($post->ID, 'catalog', '', ', ','');
    break;
  }
}
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  1. yea you can do just that. you only need to change the output function which in this case is

    function prod_custom_columns($column){
  global $post;
  switch ($column)
  {
   case "description":
    the_excerpt();
    break;
   case "price": // Now here I have to define the field, but how would I drag in other subsequent price fields?
    $custom = get_post_custom();
    echo $custom["price"][0];
    break;
   case "catalog":
    echo get_the_term_list($post->ID, 'catalog', '', ', ','');
    break;
  }
}

    to display what you want for each column say your price
    change it to something like:

    case "price": // Now here I have to define the field, but how would I drag in other subsequent price fields?
    $custom = get_post_custom();
    echo $custom["price"][0];
    echo 'br />';
    echo $custom["another_FIELD"][0];
    echo 'br />';
    echo $custom["yet_another_FIELD"][0];
    break;

    hope this helps