diff --git a/types/ansi-regex/ansi-regex-tests.ts b/types/ansi-regex/ansi-regex-tests.ts
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+import ansiRegex = require("ansi-regex");
+
+ansiRegex(); // $ExpectType RegExp
+
+// From the ansi-regex README.md
+ansiRegex().test('\u001B[4mcake\u001B[0m'); // $ExpectType boolean
+// => true
+
+ansiRegex().test('cake'); // $ExpectType boolean
+// => false
+
+'\u001B[4mcake\u001B[0m'.match(ansiRegex()); // $ExpectType RegExpMatchArray | null
+// => ['\u001B[4m', '\u001B[0m']
diff --git a/types/ansi-regex/index.d.ts b/types/ansi-regex/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for ansi-regex 3.0
+// Project: https://github.com/chalk/ansi-regex#readme
+// Definitions by: Manish Vachharajani <https://github.com/mvachhar>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+declare function r(): RegExp;
+export = r;
diff --git a/types/ansi-regex/tsconfig.json b/types/ansi-regex/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",
+        "ansi-regex-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/ansi-regex/tslint.json b/types/ansi-regex/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }