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Return a shared pointer to the non&hyphen;modifiable format for this metric description&period; Note that the returned shared pointer _may_ _be_ _null_ if a format has not been provided for the described metric&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balm&lowbar;metricdescription&period;h&gt;`

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format() const;
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