import { SrcMap } from 'mini-parse';
/** specify a start,end portion of a string to be replaced */
export interface SliceReplace {
    start: number;
    end: number;
    replacement: string;
}
/**
 * Rewrite a string by replacing segments them with provided texts.
 *
 * example:
 * src:
 *  aaabbbbbc
 *     ^    ^
 *     St   End Repl='XXX'
 *
 * returns a srcMap with the new text and mappings from the original text to the new text
 *  aaaXXXc
 */
export declare function sliceReplace(src: string, slices: SliceReplace[], start?: number, end?: number): SrcMap;
/** find strings in a text -
 * found strings must be 'tokens', surrounded by spaces or punctuation
 *
 * @return SliceReplace elements
 */
export declare function sliceWords(text: string, replace: Record<string, string>): SliceReplace[];