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Alpaca provides the easiest and fastest way to generate interactive forms for the web and mobile devices. It runs simply as HTML5 or more elaborately using Bootstrap, jQuery Mobile or jQuery UI. Alpaca uses Handlebars to process JSON schema and provide
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/**
* Maintenance of web-sites can often cause unexpected headaches, particularly
* if the hardcoded index of an array (the columns in a DataTables instance)
* needs to change due to an added or removed column. This plug-in function
* will match a given string to the title of a column in the table and return
* the column index, helping to overcome this problem.
*
* @name fnGetColumnIndex
* @summary Get the column index by searching the column titles
* @author [Michael Ross](http://www.rosstechassociates.com/)
*
* @param {string} sCol Column title to search for
* @returns {integer} Column index, or -1 if not found
*
* @example
* var table = $('#example').dataTable();
* table.fnGetColumnIndex( 'Browser' );
*/
jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oApi.fnGetColumnIndex = function ( oSettings, sCol )
{
var cols = oSettings.aoColumns;
for ( var x=0, xLen=cols.length ; x<xLen ; x++ )
{
if ( cols[x].sTitle.toLowerCase() == sCol.toLowerCase() )
{
return x;
}
}
return -1;
};