export declare const PLACEHOLDER_START = "\uE000";
export interface IExtractedReferences {
    /** Original text with every `{type/id}` token replaced by a placeholder. */
    text: string;
    /** Original `{type/id}` tokens, indexed by the number embedded in their placeholder. */
    tokens: string[];
}
/**
 * `split`'s capture group wraps the whole placeholder, for use with `String.split`
 * so the placeholder survives as its own array entry. The default form's capture
 * group is just the numeric index, for an `exec()` loop that resolves it against
 * `tokens`.
 */
export declare function getPlaceholderRegex(split?: boolean): RegExp;
/**
 * Replaces `{type/id}` reference tokens with placeholders before Markdown parsing.
 * CommonMark's emphasis rule treats `_word_`-shaped substrings inside an id as
 * legal italic markup and strips the underscores — extracting first avoids that.
 */
export declare function extractReferences(text: string): IExtractedReferences;
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