# Reffering to movie clips help

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reffering-to-movie-clips-help/205335
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**Created:** [October 28, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reffering-to-movie-clips-help/205335 "2006-10-28T03:39:14Z")
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### Author: ![CrispyLlama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@CrispyLlama](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CrispyLlama)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reffering-to-movie-clips-help/205335/1 "2006-10-28T03:39:14Z")

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I need help with altering values of movie clips (couldnt think of another way to put it)

say i need to change the \_x of movie clip ##\_mc

# being variables

i would normally use:  
tellTarget ("\_root."+A+B+"\_mc")  
{  
\_x++;  
}  
since the i cant just say \_root.G5\_mc.\_x++; cuz i dont know if its G5\_mc or G4\_mc (follow? im horrible at explaining things!)

is there any other way of doing this? or do i have to use tellTarget?

i tried:  
“\_root.”+A+B+"\_mc.\_x" += 1;  
but it didnt like that too much