[fpc-pascal] replace one field of a record in a collection...

[waldo kitty]

i've gone brain dead after a few days at my $$$ job and i cannot figure out how 
to replace one field of a record in a collection :/  i'm looking at my existing 
code that does something similar but it is replacing the entire record and 
that's too much as well as the fact that the two records i'm working with are 
not the same...

i'm building a record with data from a file... this record has a field that is 
basically the joiner between two tables if we were talking databases... all data 
is linked based on this field... there is another field that contains some 
text... is it this text field that needs to be put in place of the text field in 
the collection record if the two are not the same..

so, i'm creating a record to use for the collection's search function but then 
when i find the record i'm seeking, i don't know how to replace its text 
field... the more i look at the code and try to figure it out, the more it looks 
like tarzan's squiggly bugs in the books that he learned to read from :?