How to change the date format YYYYMMDD to MM/DD/YYYY

Question

Hi ,
How to change the date format  YYYYMMDD to MM/DD/YYYY .
Ex :  20071008  to 10/08/2007
Is there any function module for this ??
Regards
Rahul

Answer 1

Hi Sharma,
check the code:
SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK b2 WITH FRAME TITLE text-031.
PARAMETERS: date1 RADIOBUTTON GROUP rad1 DEFAULT 'X', "SAP date format YYYYDDMM
date2 RADIOBUTTON GROUP rad1, "Date format like aprial31, 2006
date3 RADIOBUTTON GROUP rad1, "Date format like 31 apr,2006
date4 RADIOBUTTON GROUP rad1, "Date format like DD/MM/YYYY
date5 RADIOBUTTON GROUP rad1. "Date format like DD.MM.YYYY
SELECTION-SCREEN END OF BLOCK b2
FORM getmonth .
SELECT mnr
ktx
ltx
INTO TABLE T_month
FROM t247
WHERE spras = 'EN'.
IF sy-subrc NE '0'.
MESSAGE I "Message - Not able to get month values from the table T247
ENDIF.
ENDFORM.
DATA : temp_date(16) TYPE c,
temp1_date(60) TYPE c,
year(4) TYPE c,
daymonth(11) TYPE c,
daymonth1(11) TYPE c,
month(9) TYPE c,
day(2) TYPE c,
mon LIKE t247-ktx,
len TYPE i .
MOVE date TO temp1_date .
CONDENSE temp1_date NO-GAPS.
MOVE temp1_date TO temp_date .
IF date2 EQ 'X'. "The date format is like Aprial 31, 2007
CONDENSE temp_date NO-GAPS.
SPLIT date AT ',' INTO daymonth year.
IF STRLEN( year ) NE '4'.
error = 'X'.
WRITE : 'Invalid date format.'.
ELSE.
daymonth1 = daymonth.
CONDENSE daymonth1 NO-GAPS.
_len = STRLEN( _daymonth1 ).
l_len = 13 - len.
SHIFT daymonth1 RIGHT BY len PLACES.
CONDENSE daymonth1 NO-GAPS.
month = daymonth1.
CONDENSE month NO-GAPS.
SORT t_month BY monthltx.
READ TABLE t_month WITH KEY monthltx = month.
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
error = 'X'.
WRITE : 'Invalid date format.' .
ELSE.
len = STRLEN( month ).
CONDENSE daymonth NO-GAPS.
SHIFT daymonth LEFT BY len PLACES.
day = daymonth.
CONDENSE day NO-GAPS.
CONCATENATE year t_month-monthnumber day INTO o_date.
ENDIF.
ENDIF.
ELSEIF p_date3 EQ 'X'. "The date format is like 31 apr, 2007
CONDENSE temp_date NO-GAPS.
SPLIT i_date AT ',' INTO daymonth year.
IF STRLEN( year ) NE '4'.
error = 'X'.
WRITE : 'Invalid date format.'.
ELSE.
daymonth1 = daymonth.
CONDENSE daymonth1 NO-GAPS.
SHIFT daymonth1 LEFT BY 2 PLACES.
CONDENSE daymonth1 NO-GAPS.
month = daymonth1.
CONDENSE month NO-GAPS.
TRANSLATE month TO UPPER CASE.
SORT t_month BY monthstx.
MOVE month to mon.
READ TABLE t_month WITH KEY monthstx = mon.
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
error = 'X'.
WRITE : 'Invalid date format.' .
ELSE.
CONDENSE daymonth NO-GAPS.
day = daymonth+0(2).
CONDENSE day NO-GAPS.
CONCATENATE year t_month-monthnumber day INTO o_date.
ENDIF.
ENDIF.
ELSEIF p_date4 EQ 'X' OR p_date5 EQ 'X'. "Date format is like DD.MM.YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY
CONDENSE temp_date NO-GAPS.
IF STRLEN( temp_date ) EQ 10.
o_date0(4) = temp_date6(4).
o_date4(2) = temp_date3(2).
o_date6(2) = temp_date0(2).
ELSE.
error = 'X'.
WRITE : 'Invalid date format.' .
ENDIF.
ENDIF.
IF STRLEN( o_date ) NE '8'.
error = 'X'.
WRITE : 'Invalid date format.'.
ENDIf.
ENDFORM. " f0100_conv_date
Reward if helpful.
Regards,
Harini.S