Incrementing Instance Names When Duplicating Movie Clips

Hello,

After reading some stuff on duplicating movie clips with addChild, I am wondering how I am able to do add a number to the end of the created instance. Say I created a movie clip “mc1”, I want to be able to duplicate that and make “mc2”, and “mc3” etc. This way I can access the properties of each created instance. The tutorials I have read don’t seem to touch on this aspect of duplicating movie clips. Much of the example code involves changing the properties of the newly created one. I wish to know how I can increment the names of the movie clips with a number so I can continue to change their properties as I keep duplicating more movie clips.

Thank you, any help is appreciated.