What's wrong with my simple For loop?

[SwirlyKing]

for (var i:int=1; i<18; i++){
    var tFish = new "tiny"+i+"_mc()";
    tinyHolder.addChild(tFish);
} 

[Kirill M.]

I'm assuming that you have clips in your library with linkage class names set to tiny1_mc, tiny2_mc, and so on up to 18. The way you attach a clip from the library is:

var libClip : Sprite = new MyLibraryClipsLinkageClassName();

Since you have these things numbered and want to dynamically add them you gotta do something a bit tricky:

import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;

...

for (var i:int=1; i<18; i++){

    var libClass : Class = getDefinitionByName( "tiny"+i+"_mc" ) as Class;
    var tFish : Sprite = ( new libClass() ) as Sprite; 
    tinyHolder.addChild(tFish); 
} 

[SwirlyKing]

That worked perfectly! thank you so much.