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 // License: LGPL-3.0-or-later
 // from: https://github.com/jsillitoe/react-currency-input/blob/master/src/index.js
 import React, { useState, useRef, useCallback, useEffect } from 'react';
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+import usePrevious from './usePrevious';
 import { MoneyFormatHelper} from './money_format_helper';
 import { UseI18nCurrencyInputProps,  MaskedAndRawValues, UseI18nCurrencyInputResult } from './types';
 
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+/** we put this in here so we don't have reference react-use and deal with linking that in */
+
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+
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+  const ref = useRef<T>();
+
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+    ref.current = state;
+  });
+
+  return ref.current;
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   resolution: "ts-jest@npm:29.2.5"
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