/**
 * @param {string} path
 * @returns {string}
 */
export function dirname(path: string): string;
/**
 * @see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17575790/environment-detection-node-js-or-browser
 * @returns {boolean}
 */
export function isBrowserEnvironment(): boolean;
export namespace isBrowserEnvironment {
    let isIt: undefined | boolean;
}
/**
 * @param {Object<any, any>} object
 * @returns {boolean}
 */
export function isObjectEmpty(object: any): boolean;
/**
 * Using binary search, find first element that is greater or
 * equal to the given target.
 *
 * @param {number[]} arr Sorted array
 * @param {number} target
 * @returns {number}
 */
export function binarySearchFirstGTE(arr: number[], target: number): number;
/**
 * @param {string} inputString
 * The 'start' symbol of the input string should be the opening
 * bracket. The closing bracket is automatically determined.
 *
 * For example:
 * ``
 * {textInside{}} textOutside
 * ``
 * The output value for this example would be 13.
 * @param {number} [start]
 * The position where the opening quote is.
 * @returns {number} The position of the found bracket,
 * or 0 if not found
 */
export function findClosingBracketPosition(inputString: string, start?: number): number;
/**
 * @param {string} inputString
 * The 'start' symbol of the input string should be the
 * opening quote.
 * @param {number} [start]
 * The position where the opening quote is.
 * @returns {number}
 * The position of the closing quote after 'start',
 * or 0 if the string doesn't start with a quote,
 * or 0 if no closing quote found.
 */
export function findClosingQuotePosition(inputString: string, start?: number): number;
export namespace findClosingQuotePosition {
    let quotes: Set<string>;
}
/**
 * Find the position of the first EOL symbol (\n).
 * If not found, return the position of the end.
 *
 * @param {string} inputString
 * @param {number} [start]
 * @returns {number}
 * The position of the next \n after 'start', or -1 if not found
 */
export function findEOL(inputString: string, start?: number): number;
/**
 * Remove // in the beginning or in the middle of the string
 *
 * @param {string} description
 * @returns {string}
 */
export function flattenMultilineDescription(description: string): string;
/**
 * @param {string} openingBracket (, [, < or {
 * @returns {string}
 */
export function closingBracketOf(openingBracket: string): string;
/**
 * Splits the type expression using custom separator.
 * The split is aware of chunks of code (brackets, quotes,
 * comments) and treats them as whole entities.
 *
 * @param {string} typeExpression
 * @param {Set<string>} [separators] One or more separators
 * @returns {string[]} An array with minimum 1 element.
 */
export function splitTypeExpression(typeExpression: string, separators?: Set<string>): string[];
/**
 * In JsDoc comments, single-line comments in object literals are
 * considered descriptions. One such description can be made of
 * multiple lines of single-line descriptions.
 *
 * When the input JsDoc expression has multiple lines and starts
 * with a single-line comment (//...), that comment is a JsDoc
 * description and is isolated from the rest of the expression.
 *
 * The returned value is a tuple with 2 values, where the
 * isolated description is at index 0 and the rest is at index 1.
 * Both values are trimmed.
 *
 * @param {string} expression
 * @returns {[string, string]}
 * @throws {SyntaxError}
 */
export function isolateFrontDescription(expression: string): [string, string];
/**
 * @param {string} expression
 * A trimmed JsDoc expression, containing type and
 * (optionally) a description.
 * The description can have multiple lines, where
 * each line starts with //.
 * @returns {[string, string]}
 * For example, if the expression is "number // description",
 * the output will be ['number', 'description'].
 * If the expression is "{number} // description",
 * the output will be ['{number}', 'description'].
 */
export function isolateEndDescription(expression: string): [string, string];
/**
 * @see https://gist.github.com/creationix/7435851#gistcomment-3698888
 *
 * @param {...string} segments
 * @returns {string}
 */
export function joinPath(...segments: string[]): string;
export namespace joinPath {
    /**
     * @param {string[]} parts
     * @param {string} segment
     * @returns {string[]}
     */
    function reducer(parts: string[], segment: string): string[];
}
/**
 * If the input value is a string, wrap it into "" quotes,
 * otherwise turn it into a string and return it
 *
 * @param {*} value
 * @param {string} quote
 * @returns {string}
 */
export function enquoteString(value: any, quote?: string): string;
/**
 * If the input value is a string, remove the wrapping quotes,
 * otherwise turn it into a string and return it
 *
 * @param {*} value
 * @returns {string}
 */
export function dequoteString(value: any): string;
/**
 * Removes ( and ) braces, if they are the first and
 * the last symbols of the trimmed input string
 *
 * @param {string} str
 * @returns {string}
 */
export function removeWrappingBraces(str: string): string;
/**
 * @param {any[]} object
 * @param {number} [maxSymbols]
 * @returns {string}
 * @throws {TypeError}
 */
export function objectStringify(object: any[], maxSymbols?: number): string;
/**
 * Trim each value of the chopped commend (array)
 *
 * @param {string[]} array
 */
export function trimArrayElements(array: string[]): void;
/**
 * Search for simple ES imports and return the file names.
 *
 * @example
 * `
 * import './fileOne.js'
 * import './fileTwo.js'
 * `
 * This returns [ './fileOne.js', './fileTwo.js' ]
 *
 * @param {string} code
 * @returns {string[]}
 */
export function extractSimpleImports(code: string): string[];