/**
 * @copyright Sister Software
 * @license AGPL-3.0
 * @author Teffen Ellis, et al.
 *
 * Readers for the three French postal-line shapes that the FINESS and Annuaire de l'éducation
 * publications share: the La Poste routing line (`97100 BASSE TERRE`, `97331 CAYENNE CEDEX`), a
 * line holding a post-office box among other text (`ZA ESPERANCE - BP 26`), and the comparison of
 * two place names written in different forms (`ST PIERRE` against `Saint-Pierre`).
 *
 * Both adapters read French overseas registers, and both publishers write these lines the same
 * way, so the readers live in one module rather than in each adapter.
 */
/**
 * A routing line split into the components the French address layout prints on its last line.
 */
export interface AcheminementLine {
    postcode: string;
    locality: string;
    /**
     * The `CEDEX` phrase with its office number, as written, when the line ends with one.
     */
    cedex?: string;
}
/**
 * Split a La Poste routing line into postcode, locality and an optional trailing `CEDEX`.
 *
 * Returns `null` when the line does not open with a five-digit postcode,
 * holds no locality after it, or holds `CEDEX` anywhere but at its end, because none
 * of those is a routing line the French layout can print.
 */
export declare function parseAcheminementLine(line: string): AcheminementLine | null;
/**
 * A line with its post-office box taken out.
 */
export interface PostBoxSplit {
    /**
     * The box as written, with its whitespace collapsed, or `null` where the line holds none.
     */
    poBox: string | null;
    /**
     * What the line holds besides the box, with the separators around it removed.
     */
    remainder: string;
}
/**
 * Take the first post-office box out of a line.
 *
 * `SAVANNAH BP 90149` yields `BP 90149` and `SAVANNAH`, and `BP 381-SPRING CONCORDIA -`
 * yields `BP 381` and `SPRING CONCORDIA`.
 */
export declare function splitPostBox(line: string): PostBoxSplit;
/**
 * Whether a line locates part of a building or a landmark rather than a place.
 */
export declare function isPremiseDescriptor(line: string): boolean;
/**
 * Whether two place names write the same place: `ST PIERRE` and `Saint-Pierre`, `MATA'UTU` and `Mata Utu`.
 */
export declare function isSamePlace(left: string, right: string): boolean;
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