/**
 * Strip string literals (single-quote, double-quote, and template — including
 * `${}` interpolations and nested templates) plus comments (line and block)
 * from TypeScript/JavaScript source, returning only the code that lives
 * outside those contexts.
 *
 * Heuristic content checks — e.g. "is this a real Angular `@Component`
 * source?" — must run against the result, not the raw text. A naive regex
 * strip mis-pairs quotes whenever a quote or backtick appears inside a
 * differently-quoted string or a comment (inline-code backticks in JSDoc, an
 * apostrophe in a comment, a backtick inside a single-quoted string), leaving
 * the matched text behind and producing false positives.
 *
 * Regex literals are intentionally left intact: telling `/` division apart
 * from a regex needs a full parser, and their contents have never mattered for
 * the checks this supports.
 */
export declare const stripStringsAndComments: (source: string) => string;