# Assigning instance names with actionscript

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-instance-names-with-actionscript/171106>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 1, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-instance-names-with-actionscript/171106 "2005-12-01T21:55:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbkons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jbkons](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jbkons)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-instance-names-with-actionscript/171106/1 "2005-12-01T21:55:37Z")

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Hi Guys,

I am working with a number of movieclips and I was wondering if there was an easy method using actionscript to assign them instance names instead of doing it manually for each movieclip.

I am not very familiar with actionscript but I think there should be something like this. Thanks guys!