Listing all dta files used in a do file

[Ching Wu]

Is there a command or way for me to list all the dta files that are used or called in a single do file?
(preferably excluding the files saved by the do file)

Thank you.

[Andrew Musau]

If you reference the files with the extension ".dta", you can parse the do file and extract the names.

import delimited myfile.do
egen v= concat(v*)
gen dofile= ustrregexs(1)+".dta" if ustrregexm(v,  ".*\s(.*)\.dta")
contract dofile, nomiss
list, sep(0)