>ok here goes, I am trying to copy 5 fields into one large field
>i have tried using copy to array and then replace the one field with
>the array, but no luck.

You can't just specify an array name and get all the elements in that array as one string. You will only get the first element, and that explains what you see.

Do something like:

replace feild with field1 + field2

You might need/want to trim the spaces.