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Find the specified `category`, a null&hyphen;terminated string, in this registry&period; Return the address of the non&hyphen;modifiable `balm&colon;&colon;Category` object corresponding to the `category`, or 0 if no such category has been registered&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balm&lowbar;metricregistry&period;h&gt;`

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