# How do I find a component by name?

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**Created:** [July 16, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-find-a-component-by-name/288333 "2014-07-16T06:54:42Z")\
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you can make your own component, and give it the name variable you want,

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then you can find it by doing this

```
for(TObjectIterator<UYourCompClass> Itr; Itr; ++Itr)
{
   if(Itr->YourStringVariableName = "YourName")
  {
     //do stuff!
     return;

  }
}
```

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