Error when using array and loop

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Anyone see anything wrong with this code? I have a set of 15 buttons on my stage. Trying to use an array with loop to quickly populate a new array with the instance names of my buttons, then add eventlisteners to all of them quickly too. And yes, I do have the Handler functions written out too, but I didn’t include, because the error I’m getting is
“TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function”

and the error keeps pointing to each of of the eventListeners within my for loop. Its saying that each of those eventListeners is a value that is not a function. ? I don’t get it. Thanks in advance.

var btnList:Array = new Array();
var numBtns:int = 15;

for (var i:Number = 0; i < numBtns; i++)
{
var btnName:String = “btn” + (i+1) + “_mc”;
btnList.push(btnName);
}

for (var j:Number = 0; j < btnList.length; j++)
{
btnList[j].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, btnOver);
btnList[j].addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, btnOut);
btnList[j].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, btnClick);
btnList[j].buttonMode = true;
}