# Collision-detection between dynamically named movieclips
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/collision-detection-between-dynamically-named-movieclips/111245
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 25, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/collision-detection-between-dynamically-named-movieclips/111245 "2004-05-25T05:07:34Z")
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### Author:  [@MrFlashALot](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MrFlashALot)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/collision-detection-between-dynamically-named-movieclips/111245/1 "2004-05-25T05:07:34Z")
Hi there,
I have a movieclip (myMC) that I create several instances of.
I dont duplicate the movieclips, but just copy and rename them like “myMC\_i”, where “i” is a unique number.
Can I somehow check if one copy of myMC (for instance “myMC\_2”) collides with another copy (for instance “myMC\_5”), always ignoring collisions with other types of movieclips on the stage?
Thats the problem I cant solve. I can either check for a collision with ANY other movieclip, or check for a collision with a single SPECIFIED movieclip (by checking for its name).
But I dont know how to check for a collision with a group of movieclips that has the first part of their names in common. If it had been like in a search-engine, you would have been able to search for:
myMC\_1.hitTest(“myMC\_” + \*);
…where the star (\*) is any number (or letter too, for that matter).
Sorry about the rant, but hope somebody still understands enough of what Ive said to help me.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/collision-detection-between-dynamically-named-movieclips/111245/2 "2004-05-27T15:34:37Z")
Use a loop
```auto
for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
trace (my_MC.hitTest( this["myMC_" + i]) ) ;
}
```