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+import { getEnvVars } from "./util";
+
+/**
+ * Represent a templated variable in string
+ */
+export interface ITemplate {
+    toReplace: string;  // The template to be replaced in string
+    with: string;       // The value to replace with
+}
+
+export function getIndentedTemplate(replace: string): string {
+    if (replace === "") {
+        return "";
+    }
+    const snippets = replace.split(/({indent:\d+})/);
+
+    let indentedString: string = "";
+    let indentWidth: number = 0;
+
+    // tslint:disable-next-line:prefer-for-of
+    snippets.forEach((element) => {
+        if (element.match(/{indent:\d+}/)) {
+            const indents = parseInt(element.match(/{indent:(\d+)}/)[1], 10);
+            indentWidth = indents;
+            const numSpaces = Math.max(indentWidth - indentedString.length, 0);
+            indentedString += " ".repeat(numSpaces);
+        } else {
+            // just some text
+            indentedString += element;
+        }
+    });
+
+    return indentedString;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Expand variable template in the string
+ * @param original the original string
+ * @param template variable template to be expanded
+ * @returns new string with expanded template
+ */
+export function getTemplatedString(original: string, template: ITemplate): string {
+    const replacedTemplate = original.replace(template.toReplace, template.with);
+    const replacedWithEnv = getEnvVars(replacedTemplate);
+    return getIndentedTemplate(replacedWithEnv);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Generate lines of doxygen comments from template
+ * @param lines Arrays to store lines of comments
+ * @param replace Variable template to be expanded
+ * @param template Original string that contains variable templates
+ * @param templateWith Arrays of values to replace in the original template string
+ */
+export function generateFromTemplate(
+    lines: string[],
+    replace: string,
+    template: string,
+    templateWith: string[],
+) {
+    templateWith.forEach((element: string) => {
+        // Ignore null values
+        if (element !== null) {
+            lines.push(...getTemplatedString(template, { toReplace: replace, with: element }).split("\n"));
+        }
+    });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Expand multiple variable templates in the string
+ * @param original string containing multiple variables to be expanded
+ * @param templates variable templates to be expanded
+ * @returns new string with expanded templates
+ */
+export function getMultiTemplatedString(
+    original: string,
+    templates: ITemplate[],
+): string {
+    // For each replace entry, attempt to replace it with the corresponding param in the template
+    for (const template of templates) {
+        original = original.replace(template.toReplace, template.with);
+    }
+    return getEnvVars(original);
+}