Trouble accessing animations from other GameObject

Unity Engine
1

So I’m trying to access my object tagged “Player” animations in the script that is on his gun, so I did this(I’m slimming it down just to ask about the important parts):

function Update(){
	var player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player");
	player.animation.Play("Shoot");
}

This works fine, but I want to change the animation’s WrapMode to once, so I need to find the animation in Start(), before Update().

But, if I create the “var player” in Start(), Update() can’t use that variable. Should I create it twice?

Or can I create it outside of all the functions at the top as a private variable?

2

How about this way:

var player;

function Start() {
   player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player");
}
function Update(){
   player.animation.Play("Shoot");
}