what's wrong with this statement

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1

Have a method with a passed parameter defined by: “sEventDesc As String”
in the method I define a variable: “dim i As Integer”

The statement i = sEventDesc.IndexOf(“Petitioned”) compiles without error

The statement i = sEventDesc.IndexOf(“Petitioned”, ComparisonOptions.CaseInsensitive) generates the following compile error:

There is more than one method with this name but this does not match any of the available Signatures.

Using Xojo 2019 r2.1

2

I would guess you also need the locale parameter if you add the comparison option. Try adding Locale.Current to the statement.

3

you need the start position parameter event though its got a default
This works
i = sEventDesc.IndexOf(0,“Petitioned”, ComparisonOptions.CaseInsensitive)

4

thanks Norman

5

It looks like a bug: https://documentation.xojo.com/api/data_types/string.html#string-indexof (last line of sample code)

I hope they can change it and keep the start position optional even if ComparisonOptions is used.

6

you could add your own extensions of string and make it so your initial usage just worked

   function indexof(extends source as string, strToFind as string, options As ComparisonOptions = ComparisonOptions.CaseInsensitive, locale as Locale = nil) As Integer

and this one internally might just do

return String.IndexOf(0, strToFind As String, options , locale )