# Dynamic Referencing

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-referencing/328540
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 24, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-referencing/328540 "2012-05-24T14:20:28Z")
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### Author: ![Naxirus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90ced4/32.png) [@Naxirus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Naxirus)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-referencing/328540/1 "2012-05-24T14:20:28Z")

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Hi, I’m having some trouble trying to dynamically reference a nested movieClip, like this:

// – start –  
for (i = 0; i \< 2; i++) {  
\_root[“main”+“MC”].\_x += 2; // This works fine.  
\_root.mainMC[“nestedMC”+i]._x += 2; // This fails horribly. ;_;  
}  
// – end –

Any ideas?