[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: How to use PUT statement to write numbers as characters?

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Hi folks, I supose this is a very simple question, but I haven't found an answer. I'm using the PUT statement to write into a file a collection of numbers. The problem is that I need them to be a character but when using the PUT UNFORMATTED it writes it as number instead. There is an example of code and the result. OUTPUT TO VALUE(cFilePath) APPEND. PUT UNFORMATTED cId. If I print the value of cId it's '0123', but the value written in the file is '123'. Any idea about how to use PUT to write it correctly? Thanks in advance.

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