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Your test data of ['apple','banana','carrot'] is already sorted. You'll 
never know if you get them in the original order, or alphabetical order. 
Could you show your code that creates the Document?

On 26/01/15 23:18, Lingam, ChandraMohan J wrote:
> Let's say I have three fields in a document: ordernumber, product, quantity.
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> For every ordernumber, I can have several products and corresponding quantity.
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> ordernumber = 1
> product = ['apple','banana','carrot']
> quantity=[100,2000,35]
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> Would Lucene preserve the order in which values are added to a field within a document?  i.e. apple will be first value, banana will be second and so forth?
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> In my tests, order is preserved and I am able to retrieve values back from a document in the same order I added values to it.  But wanted to confirm if this is a guaranteed behavior.
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> Thx
> Chandra
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