Would some good old UNIX hackery and regular expressions be more appropriate here?
cat your_file | sed -e "s:{\\\\'o}:ó:g" -e "s:{\\\\\"o}:ö:g" If you need it, there's always (regexp-replace). prad <p...@towardsfreedom.com> writes: > i have a .bib file with stuff like this that needs to be converted: > > W{\"o}lfle -> Wölfle > L{\'o}pez -> López > > i was thinking of creating a hash for doing so, but thought i'd ask to > see if racket already has something that would work on .bib files. > > i see there are some bib tools in scriblib/autobib, but don't see these > as being able to serve my present purpose. > > -- > in friendship, > prad > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users