[#BloombergLP-ball-LoggerCategoryUtil]
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This struct provides a suite of utility functions that facilitate the management of the categories in `LoggerManager`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_loggercategoryutil.h>`

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struct LoggerCategoryUtil;
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== Static Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/LoggerCategoryUtil/addCategoryHierarchically.adoc[`addCategoryHierarchically`] 
| Add a category that inherits thresholds from the longest name‐prefix match.
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/LoggerCategoryUtil/setThresholdLevels.adoc[`setThresholdLevels`] 
| Set threshold levels for categories matching a pattern with optional `*`.
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/LoggerCategoryUtil/setThresholdLevelsHierarchically.adoc[`setThresholdLevelsHierarchically`] 
| Set threshold levels for categories matching a hierarchical name prefix.
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