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[jeronimogarcia]

I am writting an autoit script to removed a hidden share and autoit is not letting me compile as I am getting a Badly formated variable or macro. The following is the line of code that breaks

$VBS=$VBS&@CRLF&'Set colShares = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Share where name = 'Softgrid$'")'

$VBS=$VBS&@CRLF&'Set colShares = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Share where name = 'Softgrid^ERROR

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks

[jvanegmond]

If you had used [ autoit] tags the issue would be apparent. You forgot to escape some characters in the string.

Your code:

$VBS=$VBS&@CRLF&'Set colShares = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Share where name = 'Softgrid$'")'

Corrected:

$VBS=$VBS&@CRLF&'Set colShares = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Share where name = ''Softgrid$''")'