# Need help with removing attached movieclips

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 6, 2012, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-removing-attached-movieclips/326704 "2012-01-06T10:15:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![tenchy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@tenchy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tenchy)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-removing-attached-movieclips/326704/1 "2012-01-06T10:15:52Z")

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Hi, I’m creating a highscore list like this:

[AS]function loaderCompleteHandler(e:Event):void {  
var scoreXML:XML=new XML(e.target.data);  
var playerResult:MovieClip;  
var pX:Number=86;  
var pY:Number=116;  
var order:Number=0;  
for each (var player:Object in scoreXML.player) {  
order+=1;  
playerResult = new PlayerResult();  
playerResult.x=pX;  
playerResult.y=pY;  
playerResult.order\_t.text=" "+order;  
playerResult.name\_t.text=player.@username;  
playerResult.score\_t.text=player.score.@score;  
addChild(playerResult);  
pY+=playerResult.height-1;  
trace(playerResult);  
}  
}[/AS]

I have a MovieClip with the linkage name of “playerResult” in the library. For every loop it takes the scores+names from the xml and displays them by creating a new instance of “playerResult” and attaches them one by one under each other.

I need to be able to remove this highscore when it’s not longer needed, thus (the most important part) freeing up memory. So I can then use the same code to show the scores again without doubling the memory it uses every time.

I just can’t find a good way to remove all the MCs as they all get the same instance name for every new mc attached. So I added a line (marked with //):

[AS]function loaderCompleteHandler(e:Event):void {  
var scoreXML:XML=new XML(e.target.data);  
var playerResult:MovieClip;  
var pX:Number=86;  
var pY:Number=116;  
var order:Number=0;  
for each (var player:Object in scoreXML.player) {  
order+=1;  
playerResult = new PlayerResult();  
playerResult.name=“playerResult”+[order]; // THIS ONE  
playerResult.x=pX;  
playerResult.y=pY;  
playerResult.order\_t.text=" "+order;  
playerResult.name\_t.text=player.@username;  
playerResult.score\_t.text=player.score.@score;  
addChild(playerResult);  
pY+=playerResult.height-1;  
trace(playerResult);  
}  
}[/AS]

… so I now have a name for each instance (playerResult0, playerResult1…) but still can’t come up with a way to remove them.

The scores are displayed like this:

1 name score  
2 name score  
etc…

Any suggestions?

thanks.