llGetLinkName Hell

OK, this is a rather simple one , but is causing me no end of frustration.

Is there anyway to have a linkset change to alpha by prim name, this is what i have come up with so far but only seams to work on a single prim, If i have more than one prim by that name rather than changing all the prims it does a singular prim and leaves the rest ?

I do now how to do this by putting a listen in each prim so that it would change to alpha on reciving a message, but i would rather not put a script in each prim.

integer LINK_TARGET = -1;
string target = "B1";

getLinks()
{
    integer i;
    integer linkcount = llGetNumberOfPrims();
    LINK_TARGET = -1;
    for (i = 1; i <= linkcount; ++i)
    {
        string str = llGetLinkName(i);
        if (str == target)
        {
            LINK_TARGET = i;
        }
    }
}
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        getLinks();
    }
    on_rez(integer param)
    {
        getLinks();
    }
    touch_start(integer count)
    {
        if (LINK_TARGET != -1)
        {
            //llMessageLinked(LINK_TARGET, 0, "MESSAGE", NULL_KEY);
            llSetLinkAlpha(LINK_TARGET, 0.0, ALL_SIDES);
        }
    }
}

All for the love of script simplification. Ive checked the wiki but im comming up stumped.

Thanks

SetMatchingLinksAlpha( string target)
{
    integer i;
    integer linkcount = llGetNumberOfPrims();

    for (i = 1; i <= linkcount; ++i)
    {
        string str = llGetLinkName(i);
        if (str == target)
        {
           llSetLinkAlpha(i, 0.0, ALL_SIDES);
        }
    }
}
default
{

    touch_start(integer count)
    {
      SetMatchingLinksAlpha("B1");
     }
}

Would something like that work?

To generalise a little bit - the llSetLink*() functions take a SINGLE prim-number or one of the constants (LINK_SET, etc). If you want to change a number of prims you can iterate through them as SuzanneC shows above. Unfortunately, if you want the change to happen simultaneously (or nearly so) in all the target prims you need to have a script in each one that will respond to a link-message. Also note that not all primitive values can be set 'remotely' so you'll often need a script-per-prim anyway

that works great SuezanneC, I can see where i went astray on that.

Thank you very much

Bray