import type { Buffer } from 'node:buffer';
export type SectionName = string | null;
export interface SectionBody {
    [key: string]: string;
}
export type ParseStringResult = [SectionName, SectionBody][];
/**
 * Parses a string.  If possible, you should always use ParseBuffer instead,
 * since this function does a UTF16-to-UTF8 conversion first.
 *
 * @param data String to parse.
 * @returns Parsed contents.  Will be truncated if there was a parse error.
 */
export declare function parseString(data: string): ParseStringResult;
/**
 * Parse a buffer using the faster one-ini WASM approach into something
 * relatively easy to deal with in JS.
 *
 * @param data UTF8-encoded bytes.
 * @returns Parsed contents.  Will be truncated if there was a parse error.
 */
export declare function parseBuffer(data: Buffer): ParseStringResult;