I don't know if it's a particularly good example, but here's a basic usage of for-each: #lang racket (define lst '(apple banana cherry)) (for-each (lambda (x) ; x is bound to each item of lst in turn (printf "item:~a~n" x) ; do something more with x ) lst) Hope this helps, Kieron. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Dman P <<a href="mailto:dmandus@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmandus@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I was looking for a good example of the racket function for-each I have been trying to implant it but can not seem to get it work</div> ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </blockquote></div>