export declare type Pattern = string | RegExp;
export declare type Callback = (matches: string[], counts: number) => string;
/**
 * iteratively replace every occurence of search patterns with the given replacements text in the
 * given text
 * @param patterns - search patterns, can be string or regex expressions,
 * @param replacements - replacement text for each search pattern
 * @param text - the text string to work on
 * @param caseSensitive - specifies if search is case sensitive, this only applies to string
 * patterns. for regex patterns, use RegExp ignoreCase flag (i)
 * @param replaceCount - number of times to replace occurrences for each search pattern. by default
 * all occurrences will be replaced. specify true or 1 to replace only first occurrence.
 */
export declare const replace: (patterns: string | RegExp | (string | RegExp)[], replacements: string | string[], text: string, caseSensitive?: boolean, replaceCount?: number | boolean) => string;
/**
 * iteratively replace every occurence of search patterns with the return value of the
 * given callback function in the given text
 * @param patterns - search patterns, can be string or regex expressions,
 * @param callback - the callback function
 * @param text - the text string to work on
 * @param caseSensitive - specifies if search is case sensitive, this only applies to string
 * patterns. for regex patterns, use RegExp ignoreCase flag (i)
 * @param replaceCount - number of times to replace occurrences for each search pattern. by default
 * all occurrences will be replaced. specify true or 1 to replace only first occurrence.
 */
export declare const replaceCallback: (patterns: string | RegExp | (string | RegExp)[], callback: Callback, text: string, caseSensitive?: boolean, replaceCount?: number | boolean) => string;