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date format conversion

Former Member — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:39:36 GMT

my output in txt file is having some date fields and in that the date format as coming is yyyymmdd

but i need to generate the fields in output as in format ddmmyyy

pls suggest how to do the same or which function module to acheive the same

regards

Nishant

DirkAltmann — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:58:27 GMT

Hi Nishant,

change the date field in an character field and write the date field in this character field.

Sample:

data gf_strdate(10) type c.

write sy-datum to gf_strdate DD/MM/YYYY.

regards

Dirk