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Find the index of a string (needle) in an indexable, ordered collection of strings (haystack).
Raise an exception if the needle is missing.
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If there is more than one occurrence then return the smallest index to the needle.
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Return the largest index to a needle that has multiple occurrences in the haystack.
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* [[Search a list of records]]
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