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Find the specified `category`, a null‐terminated string, in this registry. Return the address of the non‐modifiable `balm::Category` object corresponding to the `category`, or 0 if no such category has been registered.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balm_metricregistry.h>`

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