import { DialectEncoder } from './engine';
import { Value } from './types';
type LiteralToken = {
    type: 'literal';
    text: string;
};
type VariableToken = {
    type: 'variable';
    name?: string;
};
type Token = LiteralToken | VariableToken;
export declare function tokenise(input: string): Token[];
export type ArgType = Value | (Value | Value[])[] | {
    [key: string]: Value | Value[];
};
export default function sprintf(fmt: string, args?: ArgType, encoder?: DialectEncoder): string;
export {};