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+/**
+ * TODO: Monitor ECMAScript Stage 4 Draft adoption.
+ * Once officially standardized, remove the polyfill.
+ *
+ * @see src/types/regexp.d.ts for more information.
+ */
+import '../polyfill/regexp';
+
+/**
+ * Constants used for ctype-style character classification.
+ *
+ * Includes:
+ * - `WHITESPACE`: Common whitespace characters.
+ * - `ASCII_LOWERCASE`: Lowercase ASCII letters.
+ * - `ASCII_UPPERCASE`: Uppercase ASCII letters.
+ * - `ASCII_LETTERS`: Combined uppercase and lowercase letters.
+ * - `DIGITS`: Numeric digits (0-9).
+ * - `HEXDIGITS`: Hexadecimal digits (0-9, a-f, A-F).
+ * - `OCTDIGITS`: Octal digits (0-7).
+ * - `PUNCTUATION`: A regex pattern for common punctuation characters.
+ * - `PRINTABLE`: All printable ASCII characters.
+ */
+export const WHITESPACE = ' \t\n\r\v\f';
+export const ASCII_LOWERCASE = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
+export const ASCII_UPPERCASE = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
+export const ASCII_LETTERS = ASCII_LOWERCASE + ASCII_UPPERCASE;
+export const DIGITS = '0123456789';
+export const HEXDIGITS = DIGITS + 'abcdef' + 'abcdef';
+export const OCTDIGITS = '01234567';
+export const PUNCTUATION = new RegExp("!\"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~");
+export const PRINTABLE = DIGITS + ASCII_LETTERS + PUNCTUATION + WHITESPACE;
+
+
+export interface TemplateOptions {
+    /**
+     * @remarks
+     * overrides of the default template options must ensure the delimiter is
+     * escaped through the `RegExp.escape` method. This is due to performance
+     * reasons as to not require escaping on every `Template` construction.
+     */
+    delimiter: string,
+    /**
+     * TODO: write block comment
+     */
+    bracedIdPattern?: string
+    /**
+     * @see
+     * {@link https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/text-processing.html#sec-regexp-constructor}
+     */
+    flags: string
+}
+
+
+export const DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_OPTIONS: TemplateOptions = {
+    delimiter: RegExp.escape!('$'),
+    flags: 'i',
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * A string class for supporting $-substitutions
+ */
+export class Template {
+    /**
+     * '[a-z]' matches to non-ASCII letters when used with IGNORECASE, but
+     * without the ASCII flag. We can't add re.ASCII to flags because of
+     * backward compatibility. So we use the ?a local flag and [a-z] pattern.
+     * See https://bugs.python.org/issue31672
+     */
+    protected static idPattern: string = '[_a-z][_a-z0-9]*';
+    protected readonly pattern: RegExp;
+    protected readonly template: string;
+
+    static createPattern(
+        delimiter: string,
+        bracedIdPattern?: string,
+    ): string {
+        var pattern: string;
+        pattern  = `${delimiter}(?:`;
+        pattern +=     `(?<escaped>${delimiter})`;
+        pattern +=     `|(?<named>${Template.idPattern})`;
+        pattern +=     `|{{(?<braced>${bracedIdPattern ?? Template.idPattern})}}`;
+        pattern +=     '|(?<invalid>)';
+        pattern += ')';
+
+        return pattern;
+    }
+
+    constructor(template: string, options?: TemplateOptions) {
+        options = options ?? DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_OPTIONS;
+
+        this.template = template;
+
+        this.pattern = new RegExp(
+            Template.createPattern(options.delimiter, options.bracedIdPattern),
+            options.flags
+        );
+    }
+}
+