// When you want an ordinal list of numbers, use a for loop
// starting at 1.
for (int i = 1; i <= 12; i++)
System.out.println("Month # " + i);
// When you want a set of array indices, use a for loop
// starting at 0.
for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
System.out.println("Month " + months[i]);
// For a discontiguous set of integers, try a BitSet
// Create a BitSet and turn on a couple of bits.
BitSet b = new BitSet();
b.set(0); // January
b.set(3); // April
// Presumably this would be somewhere else in the code.
for (int i = 0; i<12; i++) {
if (b.get(i))
System.out.println("Month " + months[i] + " requested");
}