Another way to achieve this is using old printf() function of C language
You can use this like
int dd = 1, mm = 9, yy = 1;
printf("%02d - %02d - %04d", mm, dd, yy);
This will print 09 - 01 - 0001 on the console.
You can also use another function sprintf() to write formatted output to a string like below:
int dd = 1, mm = 9, yy = 1;
char s[25];
sprintf(s, "%02d - %02d - %04d", mm, dd, yy);
cout << s;
Don't forget to include stdio.h header file in your program for both of these functions
Thing to be noted:
You can fill blank space either by 0 or by another char (not number).
If you do write something like %24d format specifier than this will not fill 2 in blank spaces. This will set pad to 24 and will fill blank spaces.
