# Anyone real good with ActionScript ? Variable Question

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**Created:** [April 14, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-real-good-with-actionscript-variable-question/307992 "2010-04-14T17:07:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-real-good-with-actionscript-variable-question/307992/1 "2010-04-14T17:07:23Z")

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I have three variables named:

var pic **1** , pic **2** , pic **3** ;

// I want to set i=2 and be able to reference the second variable mentioned above  
i=2

// something to the effect of this idea, but this isn’t the correct syntax  
pic+i = “whatever”;

can anyone help?