createEmptyMovieClip(variableName,level)

programming flash
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the problem:

I want to write a function generateClip(variableName) in order to generate moviclieps on the scene and i need the movies to have their instancenames called after “variableName” parameter

this is what I did

 
 
function generateClip(variableName){ 
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(variableName,10); 
} 
_root.generateClip(myclip1);

i’m debuging and the result is that I don’t have the movie clip “myclip1” on the root, but only:

Movie Clip: Frame=0 Target="_level0.undefined"


what have i done wrong?