# Splitting string/textfield into movieclips

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**Created:** [January 26, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/splitting-string-textfield-into-movieclips/303762 "2010-01-26T18:49:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/splitting-string-textfield-into-movieclips/303762/1 "2010-01-26T18:49:14Z")

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I want to split a string into its individual characters and then put them in movieclips so that they can be individually tweened. any suggestions on how to do this?

i was thinking i could split() the string into an array and then create an array of movieclips, each movieclip containing the corresponding letter in the split() array. would this be a good way to resemble a textfield? im looking to do something like the effect here: [http://blog.greensock.com/splittextfield/](http://blog.greensock.com/splittextfield/)  
i just don’t feel like spending $99 to get the package. any suggestions would be appreciated!