Assigning with switch/ case

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Hi everyone,

I have a question about my setup that is not working. I have an array of movie clips that are placed on the stage (this works fine) but I want to give each movie clip a value so that I can check what the user types.

Ex.


[LEFT]_root.createEmptyMovieClip("Placement", 2);
var shapes:Array = new Array("square", "circle", "triangle");
function selectshape():String {
    //get the index for the letter
    var index:Number = random(shapes.length);
    //assign the letter to a var
    var s:String = shapes[index];
    //display letter
    return s;
}
trace(selectshape());
//calls the function that will place the shapes on the stage
pulltogether(shapes);
function pulltogether(test:Array) {
    for (var i = 0; i < test.length; i++) {
        Placement.attachMovie(shapes*, shapes*, i+10, {_x:random(200), _y:random(200)});
    }
}
 
 
var storedvalue:String;
 switch(storedvalue) {
  case "square" : 
   trace("square stored");
   storedvalue= "Red square";
   break;
  case "circle" : 
   trace("circle stored");
    storedvalue= "Blue circle";  
    break; 
case "triangle" : 
   trace("triangle stored");
    storedvalue= " Green triangle";  
    break; 
 
 [/LEFT]

Any help is appreciated! Thanks