# Help needed

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed/60881>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 13, 2004, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed/60881 "2004-08-13T11:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juzu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Juzu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Juzu)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed/60881/1 "2004-08-13T11:53:47Z")

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can someone tell me what is wrong with this piece of code? Flash MX 2004 keeps giving me this error

" **Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 4: Expected a field name after ‘.’ operator.  
\_root.[“image”+i].\_x=(\_root.[“image”+i].\_x)+42.4;

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 8: Expected a field name after ‘.’ operator.  
if (\_root.[“image”+i].\_x \>400 ){

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 9: Expected a field name after ‘.’ operator.  
\_root.[“image”+i].\_y += 35;

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 10: Expected a field name after ‘.’ operator.  
\_root.[“image”+i].\_x -= 550 ;

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 11: Unexpected ‘}’ encountered  
}

"

var no\_images = 5;  
for ( var i = 1; i \<= no\_images; i ++ ) {  
\_root.duplicateMovieClip(\_root.image,“image”+i, i);  
\_root.[“image”+i].\_x=(\_root.[“image”+i].\_x)+42.4;  
}

for ( var i=1; i \<=no\_images;i++){  
if (\_root.[“image”+i].\_x \>400 ){  
\_root.[“image”+i].\_y += 35;  
\_root.[“image”+i].\_x -= 550 ;  
}  
}