>i'm checking for .null. in teh fields and replacing them with the appropriate date type...ie null in a date field should return a //
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>i hope that what it does?

Lets go back to your original question:

>can anyone tell me how i can update the fields within an array ?

This question doesn't really make sense. Now your telling me that your trying to replace null values in a field with the appropriate empty values. Unless your array elements are some how bound to fields in a table, which would be weird, I don't see how updated array elements would change field values in a table. My question for you is: Did the code you posted originally work? If so why would you want to use an array? An array doesn't seem appropriate here. Arrays are usually used to store data temporarily. Changing the value of an array element does not automatically change a value in some field in a table unless that array element was bound to that field, and that would be a bad way to do things.