import { NumericIndividual } from '../../../individual/numeric/base/';
import { BaseIndividualReader } from '../../base';
/**
 * ## Numeric Reader
 * Provides an implementation for a reader for
 * [[NumericIndividual]].
 * @typeparam I Type of the generated individual, which extends [[NumericIndividual]].
 */
export declare abstract class NumericReader<I extends NumericIndividual> extends BaseIndividualReader<I, number> {
    /**
     * Tokenize a string into several
     * tokens. the tokens are separated by one
     * or more whitespace characters.
     * @param definition of the individual.
     * @return the tokenized string.
     */
    tokenize(definition: string): string[];
}