how to reduce button click event code in AS3

Question

I have 1 to 64 buttons called(instance name) b1 - b64. I need to add mouse click event to every buttons.My current code like this....

b1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn1click);
function btn1click(event:MouseEvent)
{
 var e = b1;
}
b2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn2click);
function btn2click(event:MouseEvent)
{
 var e = b2;
}
b3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn3click);
function btn3click(event:MouseEvent)
{
 var e = b3;
}
.......

I need to reduce that repetition.

Answer 1

You can use a loop to attach the event listeners to the buttons:

for (var i:int = 1; i <= 64; i++) {
    this['b' + i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btnClick);
}

And use a single listener function:

function btnClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
    trace(event.currentTarget + ' was clicked.');
}