Hi guy's I'm using flash 8 on mac os x.

Ok here's what i'm trying to do.
1. ive got a timeline with 20 movie clips placed on it. When played each clip play's through once and then bounces back to frame 1. Using this action script....

stop();
_root.gotoAndPlay(2);

2. ive made a input text box with the variable 'text'. this is on a seperate layer covering the whole timeline

3. ive now got a button on a different layer with this AS...
on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
if (text eq "mytextinput") {
gotoAndStop ("the clip i want it to play")
}

Ok so my problem is that i want the text entry to contain an infinate level of input. Then i would like this text to be tagged and play a movieclip on my timeline. With the AS above i can only enter the exact text i.e. "mouse" goes to frame "mouse" but "the mouse" doesn't get picked up because it has "the" in the input.

Anyway i hope thats enough to explane what i'm doing and any help would be greated with a virtual kiss.

thanks dudes