# Random animations : question about labels (currentLabel,currentLabels, ...)

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**Created:** [May 28, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-animations-question-about-labels-currentlabel-currentlabels/322649 "2011-05-28T15:37:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-animations-question-about-labels-currentlabel-currentlabels/322649/1 "2011-05-28T15:37:38Z")

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Hi !  
I’ve got a script that launches a random animation for my characters every x seconds.

There are two sorts of those animations :  
-“simple” animations; like “random3” on this timeline.  
-“splitted” animations (works in two times); like “random2” on this timeline.

When we play a “splitted” animation (random2); we STOP the reading at the middle.

When the script plays a new animation, I have to check if the previously played animation was a splitted one.  
My idea was to use “IN” & “OUT” labels for splitted animations.

I would need to retrieve the current labelS and check if “IN” is contained in them.  
If I find a IN label; then we would just use play() to finish reading this animation rather than playing a new one.

The problem is that I cannot find a way to retrieve all the frame labels.  
mc.currentLabels returns all the labels of the timeline, when mc.currentLabel returns just one single label, not the labels from every layer.

Is there a way to retrieve them ?

Any idea ?

Thanks !