/**
 * Takes and individual piece of content and adds a varint length prefex
 * @param content individual piece of content
 * @returns Uint8Array of leb128 prefix added to content
 */
export declare function attatchPrefix(content: Uint8Array): Uint8Array;
/**
 * Takes an array of contents and combines them with leb128 compressed prefix separators
 * @param contents array of individual pieces of content
 * @returns the contents together with length prefix separators
 */
export declare function encodeWithVariantPrefix(contents: Uint8Array[]): Uint8Array;
type length = number;
type offset = number;
type Prefix = {
    length: length;
    offset: offset;
};
export default Prefix;
/**
 *
 * @param content Uint8Array that contains one or more pieces of prefixed content
 * @returns Prefix object with length and offset of content
 */
export declare function parsePrefix(content: Uint8Array): number[];
/**
 *
 * @param _content Uint8Array containing at least one prefixed piece of content
 * @returns Array of separated contents with prefixes removed
 */
export declare function dropPrefixes(_content: Uint8Array): Uint8Array[];
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