How to write dd/mm/yyyy format to file?

[Albert W]

I get dd/mm/yy in output file rather than dd/mm/yyyy.
Using the following codes I expect the output to be abc,14/05/2013 but got abc,14/05/13 instead. How can I output yyyy?

output to "/tmp/test.txt".
DEFINE VARIABLE var-date AS date NO-UNDO format "99/99/9999".
define variable var-char as char.
var-date = 05/14/2013.
var-char = string(var-date).
if var-char = ? then do:
var-char = ''.
end.
put unformatted trim("abc") trim(",") trim(var-char).

 

[jdpjamesp]

var-char = string(var-date,"99/99/9999").
Time to do some background reading on formats I think