VimL string index

I don't see a builtin function to find the index of a substring within a string.
Does that exist?
For example, I want something like index('foobarbaz', 'bar') to return 3.
It seems the index function works on lists, but not strings.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

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