remove all movieclips
a simple sample
1 // 3 solutions 2 3 for (var i in holder) { 4 if(typeof(holder[i])=="movieclip" && holder[i]._name.substr(0,4)=="foo_") { 5 holder[i].removeMovieClip(); 6 } 7 } 8 9 for (var i=0;i<noOfclips;i++) { 10 var clip=_root["mc"+i]; 11 clip.removeMovieClip(); 12 } 13 14 for (var n in this) { 15 removeMovieClip(this[n]); 16 }