# \[\] referencing

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing/260311>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 14, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing/260311 "2008-05-14T11:40:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kookaburra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@kookaburra](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kookaburra)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing/260311/1 "2008-05-14T11:40:39Z")

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I’m doing some work which involves square grids.  
I’ve used sprites to display the individual squares.  
Now my question is how can i refer to the sprites like we used to refer to movieclips in AS2 like following?  
this[‘block\_’+j]For time beging, i’m just pushing all the square boxed into an array to refer them by array index.

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**Author:** ![Felixz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Felixz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Felixz)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing/260311/2 "2008-05-14T12:18:49Z")

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```auto
getChildByName('block_'+j)

```

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**Author:** ![kookaburra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@kookaburra](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kookaburra)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing/260311/3 "2008-05-15T07:03:15Z")

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Thank you Felixz