Bullet handling problem

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hI,

I have a problem in my games’s code.
As it is a space game, the user controls a ship and fires bullets.
So, every time you fire a bullet:


  if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE) && okShoot) {
  okShoot = false;
  var newDepth = depth++;
  var name = "bullet_"+newDepth;
  var clip = _root.attachMovie("bullet", name, newDepth);
  clip._x = ship._x;
  clip._y = ship._y;
 
//(plus rest of the code that enables the bullet to move)
 
}

its ok for now(this code works well).

But when I need to check if that bullet has collided with a target(wich is random generated each time you change level), i can´t get the bullets name to pass to the colision function(because I may have already fired hundreds of bullets).
I don´t want to use a “FOR LOOP”, because it slows down the game when you have already fired a lot of bullets.

does any one knows a better way for correcting this code?

thanks for reading.:book: