# Function names and strings
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/function-names-and-strings/265381
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 8, 2008, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/function-names-and-strings/265381 "2008-07-08T10:39:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@RebuiltJorge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RebuiltJorge)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2008, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/function-names-and-strings/265381/1 "2008-07-08T10:39:05Z")
ok so i have a loop that goes throught about 4 times and through eace pass assigns an MouseEvent listener to a button, i would like to store the event listener function names in an array like this
var functionNames:Array = new Array(“functionOne”,“functionTwo”,functionThree");
myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,functionNames\*);
however this doesn’t work, any ideas, thanks
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/function-names-and-strings/265381/2 "2008-07-08T11:04:30Z")
You need to have an actual reference to your functions, so code like this might work, depending on where your functions are defined:
```auto
var functionNames:Array = new Array(functionOne,functionTwo,functionThree);
```
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### Author:  [@RebuiltJorge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RebuiltJorge)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/function-names-and-strings/265381/3 "2008-07-08T17:20:26Z")
that works great, thanks!