# How to reference a button in a dynamic array

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-reference-a-button-in-a-dynamic-array/283735>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 10, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-reference-a-button-in-a-dynamic-array/283735 "2009-03-10T15:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skarab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@Skarab](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Skarab)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-reference-a-button-in-a-dynamic-array/283735/1 "2009-03-10T15:53:48Z")

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I’ve got a couple of columns of buttons loaded with attachMovie and looping through an xml array with a for loop, so they’re named, for example, “thisBtn”+i+"\_mc". But I don’t seem to be able to reference them in the script with either a written-out name like thisBtn0\_mc, or with “thisBtn”+i+"\_mc".

How exactly do you reference each individual button?