/** Return next string in the sequence "a", "b", ... "z", "aa", "ab", ... */ static String getNextDirName(String old) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(old); // go through and increment the first non-'z' char // counts back from the last char, so 'aa'->'ab', not 'ba' for (int ii = sb.length() - 1; ii >= 0; ii--) { char curChar = sb.charAt(ii); if (curChar < 'z') { sb.setCharAt(ii, (char) (curChar + 1)); return sb.toString(); } sb.setCharAt(ii, 'a'); } sb.insert(0, 'a'); return sb.toString(); }