# For in loop?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/for-in-loop/211643
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**Created:** [January 3, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/for-in-loop/211643 "2007-01-03T21:26:47Z")
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#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/for-in-loop/211643/1 "2007-01-03T21:26:47Z")

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I want to loop through a movie clip and assign a function to each of the clip’s child movieclips.

when i do a for…in loop and then do a typeof() trace I get “string” and obviously it won’t let me assign lets say ‘onRollOver’ functions to the children.

so how do i do this?