Formatting a date

Hi,

I'm doing a BDC using the following ;

bdcdtab-dynpro = '0000'.

bdcdtab-dynbegin = ' '.

bdcdtab-fnam = 'BKPF-BUDAT'.

bdcdtab-fval = '12.07.2005'. "ybsid-budat Change this

APPEND bdcdtab.

And I want to ensure that the date is always in the format dd.mm.yyyy like 12.07.2005 above. I have the date from the variable 'BKPF-BUDAT', how can format to always be the way I want?

Thanks