# Referencing movie clips in a for loop

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips-in-a-for-loop/25850>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 16, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips-in-a-for-loop/25850 "2003-07-16T23:53:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![potamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@potamus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/potamus)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips-in-a-for-loop/25850/1 "2003-07-16T23:53:40Z")

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I want to have 4 to n movie clips on my stage and to be be able perform monotonous operations on all of them in a for loop like so.

for(i=0;i\<numClips;i++)  
{  
if(this.hitTest(“clip”+i))  
trace(“hit!”);  
else  
trace(“no hit”);  
}

as you can see I’ve labeled my clips clip1, clip2, clip3… but it won’t let me reference the clip using an expression “clip”+i

If i hard code it in like this…

if(this.hitTest(“clip1”))  
trace(“hit!”);  
else if(this.hitTest(“clip2”))  
trace(“hit!”);  
else  
trace(“no hit”);

then it will work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips-in-a-for-loop/25850/2 "2003-07-17T00:00:35Z")

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Welcome to kirupa forum, potamus. =)

Funny… I just posted this link in another thread. 😛  
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12082](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12082)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips-in-a-for-loop/25850/3 "2003-07-17T00:11:55Z")

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problem solved!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips-in-a-for-loop/25850/4 "2003-07-17T00:13:45Z")

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No problem. 😉