https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-find-variables-called-in-a-data-step/m-p/695302#M212164 PROC SCAPROC may be an option but I'm not aware of anything that will tell you only variables references. The ability to use short cut references or macro variables also make it difficult to create a program scanner to do this as well though people have tried. You can find examples of code/log parsers on lexjansen.com Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:23:45 GMT Reeza 2020-10-29T18:23:45Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-find-variables-called-in-a-data-step/m-p/695292#M212161 <P>How would you find out the fields required by a data step without having to read the code line by line to see what variables are being called?&nbsp;</P> Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:35:07 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-find-variables-called-in-a-data-step/m-p/695292#M212161 juan1mario 2020-10-29T17:35:07Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-find-variables-called-in-a-data-step/m-p/695302#M212164 PROC SCAPROC may be an option but I'm not aware of anything that will tell you only variables references. The ability to use short cut references or macro variables also make it difficult to create a program scanner to do this as well though people have tried. You can find examples of code/log parsers on lexjansen.com Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:23:45 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-find-variables-called-in-a-data-step/m-p/695302#M212164 Reeza 2020-10-29T18:23:45Z