public FormatRecord(RecordInputStream in) 
{
        field_1_index_code = in.readShort();
        int field_3_unicode_len = in.readUShort();
        field_3_hasMultibyte = (in.readByte() & 0x01) != 0;
        if (field_3_hasMultibyte) {
            field_4_formatstring = in.readUnicodeLEString(field_3_unicode_len);
        } else {
            field_4_formatstring = in.readCompressedUnicode(field_3_unicode_len);
        }
}

 public FormatRecord(int indexCode,
    String fs) 
{
        field_1_index_code = indexCode;
        field_4_formatstring = fs;
        field_3_hasMultibyte = StringUtil.hasMultibyte(fs);
}

 public Object clone() 
{
        // immutable
        return this;
}

 protected int getDataSize() 
{
        return 5 // 2 shorts + 1 byte
            + getFormatString().length() * (field_3_hasMultibyte ? 2 : 1);
}

 public String getFormatString() 
{
        return field_4_formatstring;
}

get the format string

 public int getIndexCode() 
{
        return field_1_index_code;
}

get the format index code (for built in formats)

 public short getSid() 
{
        return sid;
}

 public  void serialize(LittleEndianOutput out) 
{
        String formatString = getFormatString();
        out.writeShort(getIndexCode());
        out.writeShort(formatString.length());
        out.writeByte(field_3_hasMultibyte ? 0x01 : 0x00);
      if ( field_3_hasMultibyte ) {
          StringUtil.putUnicodeLE( formatString, out);
      }  else {
          StringUtil.putCompressedUnicode( formatString, out);
      }
}

 public String toString() 
{
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        buffer.append("[FORMAT]\n");
        buffer.append("    .indexcode       = ").append(HexDump.shortToHex(getIndexCode())).append("\n");
        buffer.append("    .isUnicode       = ").append(field_3_hasMultibyte ).append("\n");
        buffer.append("    .formatstring    = ").append(getFormatString()).append("\n");
        buffer.append("[/FORMAT]\n");
        return buffer.toString();
}