Index: trunk/DataCheck/DataCheck/PlotQuality.sh
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--- trunk/DataCheck/DataCheck/PlotQuality.sh	(revision 17907)
+++ trunk/DataCheck/DataCheck/PlotQuality.sh	(revision 17908)
@@ -7,4 +7,10 @@
 if [ "$certaindate" != "" ]
 then
+   checkstring=`echo $certaindate | grep -E -o '^20[0-9][0-9]\/[01][0-9]\/[0-3][0-9]$'`
+   if [ "$checkstring" = "" ]
+   then
+      echo "Please give the variable certaindate in the correct format (YYYY/MM/DD)"
+      finish
+   fi
    getdates $certaindate
 else
@@ -26,5 +32,5 @@
 for date in ${dates[@]}
 do 
-   #echo $date
+   #echo "processing "$date"..."
    outpath=$anapath/quality/$date
    logfile=$anapath/quality/$date/quality.log