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Asked: 2026-05-25T16:34:03+00:00

I use a specified property to create fileset: <property name=cases value=B.java,A.java,C.java /> <fileset id=casesToBeRunning

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I use a specified property to create fileset:

<property name="cases" value="B.java,A.java,C.java" />
<fileset id="casesToBeRunning" dir="${src}" includes="${cases}" />

When casesToBeRunning created, I list the content of it:

<echo>Cases to be running: ${toString:casesToBeRunning}</echo>

it shows A.java,B.java,C.java which I’m not expected to.

I don’t want Ant autosort for me, I need the original sort order of the property I defined to execute the cases orderly.

Anyone know how to handle this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ant filesets don’t retain order – as you’ve seen. The related filelist type does respect ordering, so you might use:

    <filelist id="casesToBeRunning" dir="${src}" files="${cases}" />

    Whether the order is respected will depend on what task you plan to use to process the files. Most core Ant tasks that accept a fileset will accept a filelist instead, so you should be ok with them. For non-core tasks it may not work.

    (Note that before Ant 1.8.0 some tasks didn’t respect the order when traversing a filelist – among them copy for example).

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