AS3 for loops

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Hi, new to AS3 and it stresses me out! can someone help please?
i’d like to have my movie clips on the stage and run a loop to return their x and y positions, these positions will be stored in an array (startPos:Array) for use later in some other script…

I have 7 movieclips on the stage,
each with an instance name startobj[a number]

AS2… Nice all works:

var numberOfElements:Number = 7;

var startPos:Array = new Array();

for (var i:Number = 0; i<numberOfElements; i++) {
var startObjs = eval(“startobj”+*);
startX = startObjs._x
startY = startObjs._y
startPos.push([startX,startY]);
startObjs._visible = false;

}

AS3, totally confused:

I have 7 clips on the stage each with an instance name of startobj[a number]

var startList=[start0,start1,start2,start3,start4,start5,start6];
var setStarts:Array=[];

for (i = 0; i < startList.length; i++) {
var startClip:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
startClip.name=“startobj”+i;
startList*=startClip;
var startX:Number=startList*.x;
var startY:Number=startList*.y;
setStarts.push([startX,startY]);
}

But when I trace all I get is 0,0,0,0

Is this something to do with in AS3 there is no connection between names and things?

any help or links to posts would really help.

thanks