Sort months ( with strings ) algorithm

Question

I have this months array:

[\"January\", \"March\", \"December\" , \"October\" ]

And I want to have it sorted like this:

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Answer 1

Talking from a Java POV, I'm going to pimp (as I often do) google-collections (soon to be replaced with Guava):

Arrays.sort(myMonths, Ordering.explicit("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", ....));

... and you're done.

Don't write it yourself if someone else has done it, probably more efficiently and with a nicer API than you probably would.

Not helpful in the general case, but just in case any Java folk have the same problem...