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Old 10-13-2008
Annihilannic Annihilannic is offline Forum Advisor  
  
 

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Think about it... there's no real need for the else part... if it's not the day you want, it will exit... if it *is* the day you want, the script will just continue on and execute the rest of your code.

You could put it in an else clause if you wish, but the result is the same.