Index: trunk/DataCheck/Processing/FillRatescans.sh
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--- trunk/DataCheck/Processing/FillRatescans.sh	(revision 18321)
+++ trunk/DataCheck/Processing/FillRatescans.sh	(revision 18322)
@@ -16,10 +16,4 @@
 if [ "$certaindate" != "" ]
 then
-   checkstring=`echo $certaindate | grep -E -o '^20[0-9][0-9]\/[01][0-9]\/[0-3][0-9]$'\|'^[0-9][0-9][0-9]$'`
-   if [ "$checkstring" = "" ]
-   then
-      echo "Please give the variable certaindate in the correct format (YYYY/MM/DD)"
-      finish
-   fi
    getdates $certaindate
 else
@@ -33,6 +27,4 @@
 printprocesslog "INFO processing the following night(s): "${dates[@]}
 echo  `date`": processing the following night(s): "${dates[@]} >> $logfile 2>&1
-
-#echo ${dates[@]}
 
 cd $mars