# Easy movie clip question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-movie-clip-question/172298>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 13, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-movie-clip-question/172298 "2005-12-13T03:28:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![RainGame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@RainGame](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RainGame)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-movie-clip-question/172298/1 "2005-12-13T03:28:48Z")

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Let’s say I have 36 movie clips placed on a grid. They are all the same clip, but each have a different instance name. For example, the first one is called _tile\_1\_1_, the second is called _tile\_1\_2_ and so on. I know that I can access each clip through the actionscript by saying _\_root.tile\_1\_1.myvar = 5_; but is there any way I can access all 36 of them at once using one line of code? I have thought of using a loop to update the name each time, but I was hoping there was an easier way. I’d greatly appreciate any help. Thanks, RainGame