/**
 * A custom error type to be used when the
 * documentation comments are incorrect
 *
 * @export
 * @class ParserSyntaxError
 * @extends {Error}
 */
declare class ParserSyntaxError extends Error {
    /**
     * Creates an instance of ParserSyntaxError.
     *
     * @param {string} [message='']
     * @memberof ParserSyntaxError
     */
    constructor(message?: string);
}
/**
 * Remove empty strings at both start and end
 * in an array of lines
 *
 * @export
 * @param {Array<string>} lines
 * @returns
 */
declare function trimEmptyLines(lines: Array<string>): string[];
/**
 * Checks if whitespaces and tabs of a given prefix length are equal for all provided lines
 *
 * @export
 * @param {Array<string>} lines
 * @param {number} prefixLen
 * @returns
 */
declare function spaceSectionIsEqual(lines: Array<string>, prefixLen: number): boolean;
/**
 * Finds a minimum padding length
 *
 * @export
 * @param {Array<string>} lines
 * @returns
 */
declare function getCommonStartPadding(lines: Array<string>): number;
/**
 * A stack machine that collects the examples
 * by the special comments, telling about the start and end
 * of a fragment and an escape section.
 *
 * @export
 * @class ExampleParser
 */
declare class ExampleParser {
    lines: Array<string>;
    constructor(content: string);
    detectLineType(line: string): Array<string> | null;
    retrieveTextSection(start: number, end: number, ignore: Array<number>): string | null;
    mapLines(): Record<string, string>;
}

export { ExampleParser, ParserSyntaxError, getCommonStartPadding, spaceSectionIsEqual, trimEmptyLines };