# Beginner AS3

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginner-as3/273052
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 10, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginner-as3/273052 "2008-10-10T15:46:23Z")
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### Author: ![RowanE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@RowanE](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RowanE)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/beginner-as3/273052/1 "2008-10-10T15:46:23Z")

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Hi all. I’m a total novice at AS3, pretty general novice at AS since the only lectures I had basically involved ‘If you copy this you end up with this’. So, what I’d like to know:

Instances  
If I place a movie clip on the stage using var NewClip:myMovieClip = new myMovieClip(); ,how can I give the created instance (I assume it’s an instance) a name so that I can call it and manipulate it? Preferable using a procedural naming technique

ie  
for (i=0, i\<10, i++){ //Standard incremental loop  
create NewClip:myMovieClip; //My way of saying 'create a new instance of myMovieClip  
rename NewClip:(“Clip” + i) //Rename the created clip “Clip” then the current value of i

My background is in MEL, so if anyone can draw comparisons to that it might help. Who knows 😉

Cheers