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A SAS® blog for the rest of us![Using Lua within your SAS programs](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-1.png)
With apologies to this candy advertisement from the 1980s: "Hey, you got your Lua in my SAS program." "You got your SAS code in my Lua program!" Announcer: "PROC LUA: Two great programming languages that program great together!" What is Lua? It's an embeddable scripting language that is often used
![SAS Enterprise Guide now updates itself](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2015/07/egup1.png)
I returned to work from a 2+ week vacation this morning. When I fired up SAS Enterprise Guide (as I do each work day and occasionally on weekends), I was greeted with this message: As a SAS insider, I knew this was coming. It's a new feature that was added
![Copy an entire process flow in SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2015/07/copypaste.png)
I've seen some crazy process flows in SAS Enterprise Guide. Crazy-big, and crazy-complex, used by real customers to accomplish real work. But while these process flows represent a ton of work, this is usually a calculated investment to automate processes that would be difficult to capture in another way. For
![Ask the Expert: Creating custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/LearnSAS-1.png)
If you have not yet discovered the new Ask the Expert series on the SAS Training site, you are missing out on a treasure. Visit the site right now and review all of the available topics, from "Newbie" to Analytics to Visualization to good ol' SAS programming. Go on; I'll
![Using LIBNAME XLSX to read and write Excel files](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2015/05/xl_contents.png)
The XLSX libname engine in SAS allows you to read and write Microsoft Excel files in the same way that you can work with other data sets and databases. This article describes the basic (and some limitations) of the XLSX engine.
![Filter your SAS Enterprise Guide data with a WHERE clause](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2015/05/where_ex1.png)
Are you a VIEWTABLE fan from the SAS Windowing Environment (a.k.a. Display Manager, DMS, PC SAS)? If so, the latest version of SAS Enterprise Guide has a new feature that you'll love. With the latest update to SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 (7.11), you can now subset your data in the