# Appending numbers to variable name

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/appending-numbers-to-variable-name/297473>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 2, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/appending-numbers-to-variable-name/297473 "2009-10-02T17:58:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![geestring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@geestring](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geestring)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/appending-numbers-to-variable-name/297473/1 "2009-10-02T17:58:01Z")

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for(i=0; i\<16; i++){

var ball+i: ball\_mc = new ball\_mc();

addChild(ball+i);

ball+i.x = 100;  
ball+i.y = 100;  
ball+i.scaleX = 0.5;  
ball+i.scaleY = 0.5;

}

i basically want to create multiple instances