# Looping through a button array

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**Created:** [September 6, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-through-a-button-array/30311 "2003-09-06T23:10:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-through-a-button-array/30311/1 "2003-09-06T23:10:24Z")

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hi all,

i have a bunch of buttons (with textboxes in them) on the stage, each called butt1, butt2, butt3, butt4 and i want to loop through them but i’m unsure how to target their text property inside the loop

this is what i have:

butt1.text = “button1”;  
butt2.text = “button2”;  
.  
.  
.

this is what i want to achieve:

// loop through the butonCount  
for (i=1; i’\<'buttonCount; i++) { //excuse the quotation binding the less-than sign

```
   butt*.text = "button" + i;		

```

}

it’s the butt\* bit that i’m unsure about

i tried holding the name in a var and then targetted its text prop like:

theButton = “butt” + i ;  
theButton.text = “button” + i;

but that doesn’t work (i guess it;s just a variable value and as such it has no properties

do i need to create a button array (?)

thanks all

:crazy: