<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 14:26, Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Two hours ago, Laurent wrote: > Maybe also a `string-replace' could be useful, especially when one > does not want regexps and has special characters that need to be > quoted. Again, it's not clear how this shold look -- my guess: (define (string-replace from str to) (regexp-replace* (regexp-quote from) str to)) </blockquote><div> I meant this: (define (string-replace from str to) (regexp-replace* (regexp-quote from) str (regexp-replace-quote to))) (string-replace "(" "(a list)" "\\1") ; -> "\\1a list)" </div></div>Newbie-friendly (I meant regexp-quoted without the user seeing it) and easy to use. Laurent