# Referencing movie clips
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips/10583
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 3, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips/10583 "2003-01-03T18:16:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@natname](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/natname)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips/10583/1 "2003-01-03T18:16:26Z")
Hi,
I’m doing a simple duplicate movie like this:
[COLOR=blue]duplicateMovieClip(\_root.snake, “\_root.snakecopy”+i,i);[/COLOR](i does increment)
and trying to reference the \\_x\ value of each new movieClip made like this:
[COLOR=blue]snakeCopy = “\_root.snakecopy”+i;
trace(snakeCopy.\_x);[/COLOR]
But as I am finding, I can’t reference the new movieClips like that. So, my question is:
\How can I reference a movieClip in an array\:q:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips/10583/2 "2003-01-03T18:49:47Z")
This’ll do it.
snakeCopy = root[“snakecopy”+i];
trace(snakeCopy.\_x);
Also, I’m not sure, but your first line may not be working. You may need to replace it with:
duplicateMovieClip(\_root.snake, “snakecopy”+i,i);
Cheers.
-Al
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips/10583/3 "2003-01-03T19:35:26Z")
I kept my first part the same, and took out the [COLOR=blue]\_root[/COLOR] in the duplicate movie statement, and it worked like a charm.
=)
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movie-clips/10583/4 "2003-01-03T20:37:14Z")
alternatively you can also use
eval("\_root.snakecopy"+i)
and if using duplicateMovieClip in the form of
MovieClip.duplicateMovieClip(newName, depth)
you can also use
thisClip = \_root.snake.duplicateMovieClip(“snakecopy”+i, i);
thisClip.\_x …