flash actionscript: I made a MC which is stopped at the first frame. The MC is duplicated 20 times.
They are named s1 to s20. I want one of the MC's to start playing randomly. I
put this code in:

mcToPlay = "s" add (Math.round(Math.random()* 20));
_root.bg.mcToPlay.play();

I checked the variable mcToPlay with the debugger and it creates correct
values. However, the second line of the code doesn't do what it's supposed to.
I'm sure the path to the movie clip is correct.

Anny suggestions?
Pemo

When you trace mcToPlay, what you're getting is a STRING, not a MOVIECLIP.
Also, _root.bg.mcToPlay doesn't exist, it's mcToPlay which exists. The way you
can fix this, is using Bracket notation:

_root.bg[mcToPlay].play();

change _root.bg.mcToPlay.play(); to _root.bg[mcToPlay].play();

Thank you very much!

and the "add" operator went out with Flash 4.

To be more precise:

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