# Quick Question about the for() loop

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-the-for-loop/250029
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 24, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-the-for-loop/250029 "2008-01-24T18:26:00Z")
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### Author: ![praxiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@praxiz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/praxiz)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-the-for-loop/250029/1 "2008-01-24T18:26:00Z")

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I have a lot of images that I’ve loaded into movieclips called “damebilde1, damebilde2, … damebilde23”.

Works:

```php
_root.damebilde23.setMask(mc_mask);

```

Works only for damebilde23:

```php
for (var i = 1; i<=23; i++) {  
_root["damebilde" + i].setMask(mc_mask);
}

```

It’s late. I’m tired. Someone please tell me what I’m missing. This is flash 9 and AS2.0 btw.