Well i solved that always by replacing the first replacement thing with something that won't appear inside the string then changing the rest and so on.
There WAS no real need for $replacex(). (for me at least and it was added because someone requested it or Khaled thought "would be nice to have".)
for example:
$replace(hello,e,y,l,x,y,l)
as $replace performed the replacements after another, it was easy to bypass this problem.
Thats the same what you are trying to do now, using a "workaround".
I've just made a feature request thats all and now please stop complaining about it, i know how to use regex. As i already said before, i'm using regex at the moment for that, but it's easier for beginners or other (lazy) people.
Edit: As you can see from my example about the $replace thing, i don't care about longer or shorter scripts.
