declare const stringLength: {
	/**
	Get the real length of a string - by correctly counting astral symbols and ignoring [ansi escape codes](https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-ansi).

	`String#length` errornously counts [astral symbols](https://web.archive.org/web/20150721114550/http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_astral.html) as two characters.

	@example
	```
	import stringLength = require('string-length');

	'🐴'.length;
	//=> 2

	stringLength('🐴');
	//=> 1

	stringLength('\u001B[1municorn\u001B[22m');
	//=> 7
	```
	*/
	(string: string): number;

	// TODO: Remove this for the next major release, refactor the whole definition to:
	// declare function stringLength(string: string): number;
	// export = stringLength;
	default: typeof stringLength;
};

export = stringLength;