How to read contents of a property file sequentially

Question

hello all,
please can any one tell me how to read contents of a property file sequentially.
i saw most of the classes provided by JAVA API, which get All keys and there return type is enumeration which dosent preserve , or may the getKeys() method of those classes do not preserve the sequential order.
Kindly do let me know if anyone has done this before.
Thanks.

Answer 1

The best solution is that you redesign your program so that it does not depend on the order of the entries in the properties file.
If you really want to stay with your design, you will have to read the properties file yourself, line by line, just like you would read any other text file, and parse the content of each line yourself.
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("stuff.properties"));
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
    // Parse the line, use e.g. String.split() to split it around the '='
in.close();