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Create a logging stream for the given category, location, and severity.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_log.h>`

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Log_Stream(
    xref:BloombergLP/ball/Category.adoc[Category] const* category,
    std::string_view const& fileName,
    int lineNumber,
    int severity);
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== Description

Create a logging stream that holds (1) the specified `category` and `severity`, (2) a record that is created from the specified `fileName` and `lineNumber`, and (3) an `bsl::ostream` to which the log message is put.

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *category*
| category to which the record will be logged
| *fileName*
| source file name attribute for the record
| *lineNumber*
| source line number attribute for the record
| *severity*
| severity at which the record will be logged
|===


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