diff --git a/types/string-length/index.d.ts b/types/string-length/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for string-length 2.0
+// Project: https://github.com/sindresorhus/string-length#readme
+// Definitions by: BendingBender <https://github.com/BendingBender>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export = stringLength;
+
+declare function stringLength(input: string): number;
diff --git a/types/string-length/string-length-tests.ts b/types/string-length/string-length-tests.ts
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+import stringLength = require('string-length');
+
+stringLength('🐴'); // $ExpectType number
+stringLength('\u001B[1municorn\u001B[22m'); // $ExpectType number
diff --git a/types/string-length/tsconfig.json b/types/string-length/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "string-length-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/string-length/tslint.json b/types/string-length/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }