Looking to do something very simple, and I'm sure everyone can save me some time. I have a routine that needs to search for a piece of incremented text. Effectively I need to set a string variable to increment with a counter, like: TEXT (1) TEXT (2) TEXT (3) ...... TEXT (n) I need to be able to set the variable to (x), including the parenthesis. So... (setq text1 "(" x ")") doesn't seem to do it for me. I'm new to LISP so be kind. Thanks.