JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by Mahendran Sakkarai

HTML

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>

JavaScript

var months = ["January", "February", "March", "April",
    "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October",
    "November", "December"];

var month_index = function(target) {
        target = target.toLocaleLowerCase();
        return jQuery.inArray(true, jQuery.map(months, function(s) {
            return s.toLocaleLowerCase().indexOf(target) > -1;
        }))
    };

var index_of_october = month_index("oct");

alert(index_of_october);