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Greg: I just looked into the Functions class and found we have the following method:

   /**
    * Retrieve the 1-based index at which one string is found within another,
    * or 0 if the string is not found, starting at a particular index.
    *
    * @see  com.goldencode.p2j.util.TextOps#indexOf(Text, Text, NumberType)
    */
   public static Long indexOf(String source, String target, BigDecimal start)
   {
      try
      {
         return TextOps.indexOf(new character(source),
                                new character(target),
                                new integer(start)).toJavaLongType();
      }
      catch (RuntimeException exc)
      {
         ErrorHandler.handleError(exc);

         return null;
      }
   }

We also have the variant:

   public static Long indexOf(String source,
                              String target,
                              BigDecimal start,
                              boolean caseSensitive)

Do you remember what the problem was that originally prompted us opening this issue? Was it about having implementations that returned BigDecimal?

I have no idea. I'm sure I was just going off our estimate spreadsheet, based on some feedback you provided originally.