# Formatting & Display
A CFI has a single canonical rendering, the 6-character string. Rendering never allocates on the heap.
## Canonical form
`Cfi::as_str()` returns the 6-character string, e.g. `"ESVUFR"`. Internally this is a zero-cost borrow of the
identifier's own byte buffer. It never allocates and never panics, because the bytes are guaranteed to be valid ASCII by
construction.
```rust,ignore
use ftracker_identifiers::Cfi;
let cfi = Cfi::parse("esvufr").unwrap();
assert_eq!(cfi.as_str(), "ESVUFR"); // normalized to uppercase
```
If you need raw bytes instead of a `&str`, `Cfi::as_bytes()` returns `&[u8; 6]` directly.
## `Display` and `Debug`
`Cfi` implements `Display` by writing its canonical string, so `cfi.to_string()` and `{}` formatting both produce the
6-character form:
```rust,ignore
use ftracker_identifiers::Cfi;
let cfi = Cfi::parse("ESVUFR").unwrap();
assert_eq!(cfi.to_string(), "ESVUFR");
```
`Debug` wraps the same string in a readable tuple-struct style, which is what you'll see in `assert_eq!` failure
messages, logs, and `{:?}` output:
```text
Cfi("ESVUFR")
```
This makes a mismatched or unexpected `Cfi` easy to spot at a glance in test output or logs, without needing to manually
reformat raw bytes.