[#BloombergLP-ball-CategoryManager-removeRule]
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Remove the specified `ruleToRemove` from the set of (unique) rules maintained by this object. Return the number of rules removed (i.e., 1 on success and 0 if no rule having the same value is found). The behavior is undefined unless a lock is not held by this thread on the mutex returned by `rulesetMutex`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_categorymanager.h>`

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int
removeRule(xref:BloombergLP/ball/Rule.adoc[Rule] const& ruleToRemove);
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