1/**
  2 * Build a regular expression step by step, to make it easier to build and read the resulting regular expressions.
  3 */
  4declare class DateRegExBuilder {
  5    private regexString;
  6    private static ZERO_OR_MORE_SPACES;
  7    static DateRegExBuilder(): DateRegExBuilder;
  8    /**
  9     * Start the regular expression builder by matching the start of a line and zero or more spaces.
 10     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 11     */
 12    start(): DateRegExBuilder;
 13    /**
 14     * End the regular expression builder by matching the end of the line.
 15     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 16     */
 17    end(): DateRegExBuilder;
 18    /**
 19     * Capture all month full name and short names to the regular expression.
 20     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 21     */
 22    MONTHNAME(): DateRegExBuilder;
 23    /**
 24     * Capture all month full name and short names to the regular expression, in addition to any followed by one or more
 25     * spaces.
 26     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 27     * @constructor
 28     */
 29    MONTHNAME_W_SPACE(): DateRegExBuilder;
 30    /**
 31     * Add capture group for optionally capturing day names.
 32     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 33     * @constructor
 34     */
 35    OPTIONAL_DAYNAME(): DateRegExBuilder;
 36    /**
 37     * Add capture group for optionally capturing a comma followed by one or more spaces.
 38     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 39     * @constructor
 40     */
 41    OPTIONAL_COMMA(): DateRegExBuilder;
 42    /**
 43     * Add capture group for capturing month digits between 01 and 12, inclusively.
 44     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 45     * @constructor
 46     */
 47    MM(): DateRegExBuilder;
 48    /**
 49     * Add capture group for capturing month digits between 01 and 12, inclusively, in addition to any followed by one or
 50     * more spaces.
 51     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 52     * @constructor
 53     */
 54    MM_W_SPACE(): DateRegExBuilder;
 55    /**
 56     * Add capture group for capturing day digits between 01 and 31, inclusively.
 57     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 58     * @constructor
 59     */
 60    DD(): DateRegExBuilder;
 61    /**
 62     * Add capture group for capturing day digits between 01 and 31, inclusively, in addition to any followed by one or
 63     * more spaces.
 64     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 65     * @constructor
 66     */
 67    DD_W_SPACE(): DateRegExBuilder;
 68    /**
 69     * Add capture group for capturing 4 digits or 3 digits starting with 0-9.
 70     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 71     * @constructor
 72     */
 73    YYYY(): DateRegExBuilder;
 74    /**
 75     * Add capture group for capturing 1 through 4 digits.
 76     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 77     * @constructor
 78     */
 79    YYYY14(): DateRegExBuilder;
 80    /**
 81     * Add capture group for capturing 1 through 4 digits, in addition to any followed by one or more spaces.
 82     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 83     * @constructor
 84     */
 85    YYYY14_W_SPACE(): DateRegExBuilder;
 86    YYYY2_OR_4_W_SPACE(): DateRegExBuilder;
 87    /**
 88     * Add capture group for a flexible delimiter, including ", ", " ", ". ", "\", "-".
 89     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 90     * @constructor
 91     */
 92    FLEX_DELIMITER(): DateRegExBuilder;
 93    /**
 94     * Add capture group for a flexible delimiter, including ", ", " ", ".", "\", "-". Different from FLEX_DELIMITER
 95     * in that it will match periods with zero or more spaces on either side.
 96     * For reference: https://regex101.com/r/q1fp1z/1/
 97     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
 98     * @constructor
 99     */
100    FLEX_DELIMITER_LOOSEDOT(): DateRegExBuilder;
101    /**
102     * Add an optional capture group for capturing timestamps including: "10am", "10:10", "10:10pm", "10:10:10",
103     * "10:10:10am", along with zero or more spaces after semi colons, AM or PM, and unlimited number of digits per unit.
104     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
105     * @constructor
106     */
107    OPTIONAL_TIMESTAMP_CAPTURE_GROUP(): DateRegExBuilder;
108    /**
109     * Add a capture group for capturing timestamps including: "10am", "10:10", "10:10pm", "10:10:10",
110     * "10:10:10am", along with zero or more spaces after semi colons, AM or PM, and unlimited number of digits per unit.
111     * See https://regex101.com/r/0bmj5n/1/ for more information of 9-digit maximum. One series, "12:00001989198298am",
112     * has a maximum of 10 digits: "0*(?:[1-9]{1}[0-9]{0,9})?"
113     * @returns {DateRegExBuilder} builder
114     * @constructor
115     */
116    TIMESTAMP_UNITS_CAPTURE_GROUP(): DateRegExBuilder;
117    /**
118     * Build the regular expression and ignore case.
119     * @returns {RegExp}
120     */
121    build(): RegExp;
122}
123export { DateRegExBuilder };