You mean that you have included the StrUtils unit and still can't use them ? Strange, because I can see the functions in StrUtils (Lazarus 0.9.24b) :
line 24 : function AnsiPos(const substr,s : string) : SizeInt;
line 77 : Function AnsiMidStr(const AText: AnsiString; const AStart, ACount: Integer): AnsiString;inline;
Try ctl+click on the StrUtils declaration on your Uses clause and see if you can find those functions.