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Create a category having the specified name and threshold levels.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_category.h>`

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----
Category(
    std::string_view const& categoryName,
    int recordLevel,
    int passLevel,
    int triggerLevel,
    int triggerAllLevel,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator.adoc[bslma::Allocator]* basicAllocator = 0);
----

== Description

Create a category having the specified `categoryName` and the specified `recordLevel`, `passLevel`, `triggerLevel`, and `triggerAllLevel` threshold values, respectively. Optionally specify a `basicAllocator` used to supply memory. If `basicAllocator` is 0, the currently installed default allocator is used. The behavior is undefined unless each of the specified threshold levels is in the range `[0 .. 255]`.

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *categoryName*
| name of the category
| *recordLevel*
| record threshold level
| *passLevel*
| pass threshold level
| *triggerLevel*
| trigger threshold level
| *triggerAllLevel*
| trigger‐all threshold level
| *basicAllocator*
| memory allocator; null uses the default
|===


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