# Passing vars between movieclips

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-vars-between-movieclips/193379
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 12, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-vars-between-movieclips/193379 "2006-07-12T22:58:40Z")
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### Author: ![mmmdonut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@mmmdonut](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mmmdonut)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-vars-between-movieclips/193379/1 "2006-07-12T22:58:40Z")

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Hey,

I’m stumped and need a hand. I am loading content.swf into index.swf using loadContent.loadMovie(“content.swf”);

In content.swf there is a var named mycounter. I want to pass the number from mycounter back to index.swf.

Anyone know how to do this?

thanks!