# Reference a variable in a for loop?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-a-variable-in-a-for-loop/248832>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 12, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-a-variable-in-a-for-loop/248832 "2008-01-12T01:16:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![icenine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/46a35a/32.png) [@icenine](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/icenine)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-a-variable-in-a-for-loop/248832/1 "2008-01-12T01:16:18Z")

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This is using actionscript 2.0.

How do I reference a variable in a for loop?  
Any help much appreciated 🙂

```auto

//Total Number of Pages
var PageCount:Number = 12;

// Page titles
var PageTitle1:String = "I am Page One";
var PageTitle2:String = "I am Page Two";
var PageTitle3:String = "I am Page Three";
var PageTitle4:String = "I am Page Four";
var PageTitle5:String = "I am Page Five";
var PageTitle6:String = "I am Page Six";
var PageTitle7:String = "I am Page Seven";
var PageTitle8:String = "I am Page Eight";
var PageTitle9:String = "I am Page Nine";
var PageTitle10:String = "I am Page Ten";
var PageTitle11:String = "I am Page Eleven";
var PageTitle12:String = "I am Page Twelve";

//The commented out bit below works, but is lengthy and bloaty ...

/*

text1.text = PageTitle1;
text2.text = PageTitle2;
text3.text = PageTitle3;
text4.text = PageTitle4;
trace("Pagecount1's text= "+text1.text);

*/

// So I want to use a for loop, something like below, but I'm not 
//sure of the syntax of
//referencing incremented vartiables..

for(var i = 1; i <= PageCount; i++)
{
    trace(["PageCount"+i]);
    // the below line doesn't work and I don't know why:(
    //["text"+i].text = ["PageTitle"+i]

}

//
// Essentially I want to end up with something like:
//text1.text = PageTitle1;
//text2.text = PageTitle2;
//text3.text = PageTitle3;
//text4.text = PageTitle4;
//
// All the way up to whatever the PageCount is
//

```