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// TypeScript Version: 4.1

/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/unified-signatures */

/**
* Interface describing function options.
*/
interface Options {
	/**
	* Specifies the type of characters to return (default: 'grapheme').
	*
	* ## Notes
	*
	* -   The following option values are supported:
	*
	*     -   `'grapheme'`: grapheme clusters. Appropriate for strings containing visual characters which can span multiple Unicode code points (e.g., emoji).
	*     -   `'code_point'`: Unicode code points. Appropriate for strings containing visual characters which are comprised of more than one Unicode code unit (e.g., ideographic symbols and punctuation and mathematical alphanumerics).
	*     -   `'code_unit'`: UTF-16 code units. Appropriate for strings containing visual characters drawn from the basic multilingual plane (BMP) (e.g., common characters, such as those from the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets).
	*/
	mode?: 'grapheme' | 'code_point' | 'code_unit';
}

/**
* Removes the first character(s) of a string.
*
* @param str - input string
* @param n - number of characters to remove (default: 1)
* @param options - options
* @returns updated string
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( 'last man standing', 1, {
*     'mode': 'code_unit'
* });
* // returns 'ast man standing'
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( '🐶🐮🐷🐰🐸', 2, {
*     'mode': 'grapheme'
* });
* // returns '🐷🐰🐸'
*/
declare function removeFirst( str: string, n: number, options?: Options ): string;

/**
* Removes the first character of a string.
*
* @param str - input string
* @param options - options
* @returns updated string
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( 'last man standing', {
*     'mode': 'code_unit'
* });
* // returns 'ast man standing'
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( '🐶🐮🐷🐰🐸', 2, {
*     'mode': 'grapheme'
* });
* // returns '🐷🐰🐸'
*/
declare function removeFirst( str: string, options?: Options ): string;

/**
* Removes the first character(s) of a string.
*
* @param str - input string
* @param n - number of characters to remove (default: 1)
* @returns updated string
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( 'last man standing' );
* // returns 'ast man standing'
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( 'presidential election' );
* // returns 'residential election'
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( 'JavaScript' );
* // returns 'avaScript'
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( 'Hidden Treasures' );
* // returns 'idden Treasures'
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( '🐶🐮🐷🐰🐸', 2 );
* // returns '🐷🐰🐸'
*
* @example
* var out = removeFirst( 'foo bar', 4 );
* // returns 'bar'
*/
declare function removeFirst( str: string, n?: number ): string;


// EXPORTS //

export = removeFirst;