Name Of Day

===Get Name of Day Function===

How can you find out what the day name is for a given date? This function will return that value in a string if passed a date in the format mm/dd/yyyy.

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print dayname$("10/1/1998")

function dayname$(dt$)
days$ = "Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday"
dayname$ = word$(days$,(date$(dt$) mod 7)+1)
end function
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