# Need help about arrays and movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-about-arrays-and-movieclips/271725>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 26, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-about-arrays-and-movieclips/271725 "2008-09-26T21:50:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![nikel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@nikel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nikel)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-about-arrays-and-movieclips/271725/1 "2008-09-26T21:50:02Z")

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I want to change the movieclips’ width whose instance names are in an array. However I can’t change this value even for one instance.

```auto
this.holder_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
	_root.edges[1]._width = 24-_root.holder_mc._x;
	trace(_root.edges[1]._width);
};

```