How to call function for object I want? - actionscript-3

Question

I didnt know how to exactly ask the question in the title but I can explain it here. So I have this class for pawns in my game.
And in my main program i call a bunch of instances of it with different names.
var z1:ZeleniPijun = new ZeleniPijun();
var z2:ZeleniPijun = new ZeleniPijun();
Basicly I have functions for movement and other variables that I use in my code in the class.
I'm making a multiplayer game and z1 and z2 would be pawns that I move around.
Until now I have used Switch and by knowing the ID of the player and the pawn that was clicked I moved them around the board. That means I have a switch for selecting a player and a switch inside that switch for selecting a pawn. And every time it goes trough the switch it goes to the same code but with a "different name".
For example if I roll a 4 for pawn number 1 it does
z1.movePawn(4);
z1.location += 4;
and other stuff that I need it to do
and if I roll a 3 for pawn number 2 it does
z2.movePawn(4);
z2.location += 4;
and other stuff that I need it to do
I have to copy the same code 16 times and just change the name from z1 to z2 to z3 etc...
Is there anyway I can make a function that would do that for me?
Something like this:
public function doStuff(pawnName:String, number:int):void{
pawnName.movePawn(number);
pawnName.location = number;
and other stuff that I need it to do
}
and then I can just give it the parameters I want 16 times instead of copying the same code everywhere.

Answer 1

send to the doStuff function the object that you want to do changes like
public function doStuff(theObj:ZeleniPijun ):void{
theObj.movePawn(number);
theObj.location = number;
and other stuff that I need it to do
}
if you have many objects, put them in a collection, like an array an iterate on it something like
foreach (obj in collection){
doStuff(obj);
}
this is just more or less pseudo-code, but you get the idea

Answer 2

You can use the object ZeleniPijun as parameter and call the method passing the instance you want.
// example creating multiples objects
var numObjs : uint = 5;
var objectsControl : Vector.<ZeleniPijun> = new Vector.<ZeleniPijun>(numObjs);
var zeleninPijun : ZeleniPijun;
for (var i : int = 0; i < numObjs; i++)
{
zeleninPijun = new ZeleniPijun();
objectsControl[i] = zeleninPijun;
}
// if you want to animate one object
doStuff(objectsControl[0], 4);
// if you want to animate them all
for each (var zeleninPijunObj : ZeleniPijun in objectsControl)
{
doStuff(zeleninPijunObj, 4);
}
function doStuff(pawnObj:ZeleniPijun, location:int):void
{
pawnObj.movePawn(location);
pawnObj.location = location;
}