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Return the address of the non‐modifiable `Category` object identifying the category with which this metric id is associated. The behavior is undefined unless `isValid()` is `true`. Note that this method is logically equivalent to `description()‐>category()`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balm_metricid.h>`

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xref:BloombergLP/balm/Category.adoc[Category] const*
category() const;
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