import { ValueOf } from '../types.js';
import './guards.js';

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declare function splitString(text: string, options: {
    size: number;
    overlap: number;
    trim?: boolean;
}): Generator<string, void, any>;
declare function mergeStrings(chunks: string[], sep: string, options: {
    size: number;
    overlap: number;
    trim?: boolean;
}): Generator<string, void, unknown>;
declare function recursiveSplitString(text: string, options: {
    size: number;
    overlap: number;
    separators: string[];
    trim?: boolean;
}): Generator<string>;
declare const Comparator: {
    readonly EQ: readonly [0];
    readonly GT: readonly [1];
    readonly GTE: readonly [0, 1];
    readonly LT: readonly [-1];
    readonly LTE: readonly [-1, 0];
};
declare function compareVersion(a: string, comparator: ValueOf<typeof Comparator>, b: string): boolean;
declare function isJsonLikeString(value: string | undefined): value is string;
declare function halveString(value: string, seq: string, includeSeq?: boolean): [string] | [string, string];
declare function countSharedStartEndLetters(a: string, b: string): number;
declare function findFirstPair(text: string, pair: [string, string], options?: {
    allowOverlap?: boolean;
}): {
    start: number;
    end: number;
    pair: [string, string];
    inner: string;
    outer: string;
} | null;

export { Comparator, compareVersion, countSharedStartEndLetters, findFirstPair, halveString, isJsonLikeString, mergeStrings, recursiveSplitString, splitString };