Formatting the date in an output file

Greetings Abapers
I am writing a program which outputs a file in csv format. Currently the date is shown in the file as 20080609000000 but i would like it to be shown as 09.06.2008. Help anyone?

it seems that you have concatenated timestamp with year .
just concatenate w_a+6(2)
                           w_1+2(2)
                           w_a(4)
                 into   w_b .
now move this field w_b to excel

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