/** Normalize Windows backslashes to POSIX forward slashes. */
export declare function normalizeSlashes(path: string): string;
/** Remove a single leading "./" segment and any immediate extra slashes. */
export declare function trimLeadingDotSlash(path: string): string;
/** Remove a single leading "./" prefix. */
export declare function trimLeadingCurrentDirPrefix(path: string): string;
/** Remove a leading "." marker and at most one following slash. */
export declare function trimLeadingDotPrefix(path: string): string;
/** Remove one leading all-dot segment (e.g. "./", "../", ".../"). */
export declare function trimLeadingDotsSegment(path: string): string;
/** Check if a path is absolute (starts with '/', 'C:\', or '\\'). */
export declare function isAbsolutePath(path: string): boolean;
/** Remove leading forward slashes from a path-like string. */
export declare function trimLeadingSlashes(value: string): string;
/** Remove trailing forward slashes from a path-like string. */
export declare function trimTrailingSlashes(value: string): string;
/** Normalize a path to a stable key form (relative, no outer slashes, '.' for root). */
export declare function normalizePathKey(path: string): string;
/** Normalize workspace-relative values while preserving absolute roots. */
export declare function normalizeWorkspaceRelativePath(path: string): string;
/** Normalize a path to be relative to the current working directory. */
export declare function normalizePath(path: string): string;
/** Get the base name of a file system path e.g. /path/to/file.ts -> file */
export declare function baseName(path: string, extension?: string): string;
/** Get the extension from a file path e.g. readme.md -> .md */
export declare function extensionName(path: string): string;
/** Get the directory name from a file path e.g. /path/to/file.ts -> /path/to */
export declare function directoryName(path: string): string;
/** Remove the extension from a file path e.g. readme.md -> readme */
export declare function removeExtension(filePath: string): string;
/** Remove all extensions from a file path e.g. Button.examples.tsx -> Button */
export declare function removeAllExtensions(filePath: string): string;
/** Remove order prefixes from a file path e.g. 01.intro -> intro */
export declare function removeOrderPrefixes(filePath: string): string;
/** Join multiple paths together */
export declare function joinPaths(...paths: (string | undefined)[]): string;
/** Get the relative path from one file to another */
export declare function relativePath(from: string, to: string): string;
/** Ensure a path is relative */
export declare function ensureRelativePath(path?: string): string;