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`lookupCategory` overloads

== Synopses

Declared in `<ball_loggermanager.h>`

Return the address of the modifiable category in the category registry of this logger manager having the specified `categoryName`, or 0 if no such category exists. The behavior is undefined unless `categoryName` is null‐terminated.


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xref:BloombergLP/ball/Category.adoc[Category]*
xref:BloombergLP/ball/LoggerManager/lookupCategory-07.adoc[lookupCategory](char const* categoryName);
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Return the address of the non‐modifiable category in the category registry of this logger manager having the specified `categoryName`, or 0 if no such category exists. The behavior is undefined unless `categoryName` is null‐terminated.


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xref:BloombergLP/ball/Category.adoc[Category] const*
xref:BloombergLP/ball/LoggerManager/lookupCategory-09.adoc[lookupCategory](char const* categoryName) const;
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