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ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference > ActionScript classes > MovieClip > _target (MovieClip._target property)

_target (MovieClip._target property)

Returns the target path of the movie clip instance, in slash notation. Use the eval() function to convert the target path to dot notation.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 4

Example

The following example displays the target paths of movie clip instances in a SWF file, in both slash and dot notation.

for (var i in this) {
    if (typeof (this[i]) == "movieclip") {
    trace("name: " + this[i]._name + ",\t target: " + this[i]._target + ",\t target(2):" 
            + eval(this[i]._target));
    }
}

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