How can I output a date as a date within a string and not as numeric

[JohanK]

Dear reader, I ran into a small issue..

I want to output date as a visible date in (in this case DATE9.) format and not as a numeric output.  The format of AESTDT is DATE9. As an example 01DEC2021

My code for this example is Code: MSG='Onset Date - '||TRIM(AESTDT)||'- is available';

The output is this: Onset Date - 22974- is available
But what I want is Onset Date - 01DEC2021- is available

What can I do?   Thanks so much for your help!

[PeterClemmensen · Accepted solution]

Try this

data test;
   AESTDT = '01DEC2021'd;
   MSG = 'Onset Date - '||TRIM(put(AESTDT, date9.))||'- is available';
run;

[JohanK]

Great, this works... Thanks