# Multiple \_roots\[\]?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple--roots/305933>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 5, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple--roots/305933 "2010-03-05T19:20:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Osteel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Osteel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Osteel)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple--roots/305933/1 "2010-03-05T19:20:27Z")

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Hi,

Well, the best way to ask my question is with the use of examples. So I’ll just jump into it. 🙂

Lets say you have a bunch of similar movieclips and you want to move anyone of them dynamically. We would use:

```php

_root["box"+counter]._x = 200;

```

Something like that. However, my issue is not selecting a movieclip dynamically, but selecting _another_ movieclip dynamically within a dynamically selected movieclip.

Mouthful. Here’s what I mean, though this code doesn’t work:

```php

_root["box"+counter]._root["obj"+height]._y = 100;

```

Thoughts?