# Dynamic Variable names?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-variable-names/210841>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 22, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-variable-names/210841 "2006-12-22T18:40:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![carlmal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@carlmal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/carlmal)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-variable-names/210841/1 "2006-12-22T18:40:23Z")

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I want to create a var that concatenates some text with my loop counter, this doesn’t work:

```auto

var this["appNm_tf"+i]:TextField = mcMain.createTextField("appNm_tf"+i, getNextHighestDepth() , 0, i * 20, 150, 20);
 

```