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Set the format for this metric description to the specified `format`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balm_metricdescription.h>`

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void
setFormat(xref:bsl/shared_ptr-0a.adoc[bsl::shared_ptr<MetricFormat const>] const& format);
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