Wow, this is great! Works perfectly if you only care about the order of the files. However, if you wanted e.g. the 238th file or know which index file 99993 is, that’s a bit more of a headache.

You’ll also run into filename length limits quite quickly, since the number of files scales linearly with the number of characters in the filename, compared to exponentially with the 01 method.

The answer says “any character” not “any characters”, so it is still correct.

I spent way too long trying to figure out why the guy and the ice cream shop were flying, and how he would move horizontally in he air…