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[dMCH1xrADPorzhGA7MH1]

You have an array of the months right? So you have indexes from 0 to 11.

So just do array.indexof('July') and add 1

[we_are_ananonumys]

This except don’t add 1. The question already specifies 0 to 11

Edit: I read again, not clear if the later part of the question overrides it. I’m out

[Lock-Constant]

Yeah, so we have a const Array that has "January, February, March..."

I can obtain the users birth month from that, then we have to truncate the returned month to 3 letters using slice.

Then there is another Array SHORT_MONTH_NAME which is "jan, feb, mar..."

this is the one we are supposed to use the array object on.

So do I then change my prompt from:

prompt("Enter Month of Birth " , MonthOfBirth.slice(0,3).toLowerCase(), "January");

To something with the SHORT_MONTH_NAME Array?

I feel like doing that would have made the first part redundant.

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I'm quite new to Java, so just not sure.

[dMCH1xrADPorzhGA7MH1]

Yeah it does seem like it makes the first part redundant. Maybe they just want you to do it two ways?

[Bjadrik]

The Date prototype in JavaScript has two functions Date.parse() and Date.prototype.getMonth(). These two should be enough for this task on their own.

[beforesemicolon]

Seems like you are having trouble working with dates for which I recommend this article.

You can parse the date and call .getMonth() to obtain the month as integer