# Duplicate movieclip **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 18, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movieclip/21193 "2003-05-18T18:22:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jazzman121](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/jazzman121/32/127_2.png) [@jazzman121](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jazzman121)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movieclip/21193/1 "2003-05-18T18:22:12Z")
ok here is what i wanna doo I have a text box… which has data loaded from a textfiel(.txt) dynamicaly … say this is the data in the text file variablename= matt patt peter john now here is what i wanna doo… i want the text to load up in flash… but i also want… for each name … have a movie clip behind it… and that movie clip to duplicate depending on how many lines are there… in this case 4 lines… soo basically each movieclip has a name in it… and then the next name has a movie clip… and then when it reaches john … it stopes how do i do that? please help thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movieclip/21193/2 "2003-05-18T19:13:41Z")
something like this? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movieclip/21193/3 "2003-05-19T13:00:17Z")
well sort of … but i want the text on the movie clip to come from a text file… and the total number of movieclips duplicated should be same as the number of lines in the text file… excluding the variable name … ( hope that makes sense )