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Pattern Set

Suppose we need to filter the files or folders based on certain pattern then we can use Ant Pattern Set. Some meta characters are used for the creating patterns -

Consider the example of the following pattern -

<patternset id="java.files.without.order">
  <include name="src/**/*.java"/>
  <exclude name="src/**/*order*"/>
</patternset>

The if we need to reuse the patternset then we can reuse it as below -

<fileset dir="${src}" casesensitive="yes">
  <patternset refid="java.files.without.order"/>
</fileset>