Naming a variable after the for loop statement?

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hello guys, i really hope someone can help me with this. i cannot figure this out.

I use a for loop to duplicate a few times a movie clip that i created just before. They are assigned a name each monkey1, monkey2, etc…

but then i want to move those create frame but dynamically since they will vary and i can’t write out the discrete names everytime; so it means i have to use a variable of some kind but i cannot call those movieclips back somehow.

The code sample is below, it is mainly the last 3 lines that are the issue. Thanks a lot. Cheers.



bgPatternGeneration();

function bgPatternGeneration(){
    loadLocation2.createEmptyMovieClip("pattern", this.getNextHighestDepth());
    
    loadLocation2.pattern.createEmptyMovieClip("macaque", this.getNextHighestDepth());
    
    //this.createEmptyMovieClip("rectangle_mc", 10);
    //rectangle_mc._x = 100;
    //rectangle_mc._y = 100;
    
    barNumbers=9;
    barW=Math.ceil(Stage.width/barNumbers);
    drawRectangle(loadLocation2.pattern.macaque, barW, 100, 0x000000, 100);
    function drawRectangle(target_mc:MovieClip, boxWidth:Number, boxHeight:Number, fillColor:Number, fillAlpha:Number):Void {
        with (target_mc) {
            beginFill(fillColor, fillAlpha);
            moveTo(0, 0);
            lineTo(boxWidth, 0);
            lineTo(boxWidth, boxHeight);
            lineTo(0, boxHeight);
            lineTo(0, 0);
            endFill();
        }
    }
    
    var duplicate:MovieClip;
    for(var i:Number=1; i<=barNumbers;i++) {
        var newX:Number=((i-1)*barW);
        duplicate = loadLocation2.pattern.macaque.duplicateMovieClip("monkey"+i, i, {_x:newX});
    }
    //removeMovieClip(loadLocation2.pattern.macaque);
    loadLocation2.pattern._height=Stage.height;
};


trace(loadLocation2.pattern.monkey3);

k=2;

bouffon="loadLocation2.pattern.monkey"+k;
//the way below doesn't work either
//bouffon=loadLocation2.pattern.monkey[k];
trace(bouffon);
bouffon._y=188;
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If this trace works:


trace(loadLocation2.pattern.monkey3);

Then you just need to call the last Child clip with the correct syntax:


var bouffon:MovieClip =loadLocation2.pattern["monkey"+k];
3

awesome thank you so much, it works. Cheers.