How to call `replace-string` with specific strings from code?

Question

Sometimes I want to replace [$] with \( and [/$] with \) either in the region or in the whole buffer. replace-string works well for that, except for requiring me to type the strings I want to replace. I would like to call it with these specific strings from an elisp function. How can I do that?

Answer 1

From replace-string documentation:

This function is for interactive use only; in Lisp code use search-forward and replace-match instead.