Visual Studio Command Prompt gives "\Common was unexpected at this time"

See this thread.

My guess is your PATH got modified recently and now contains some folder path with quotation marks inside.

HTH

My problem was that inside of an if block the rval of a variable assignment (%PATH% in my case) contained a parentheses, for example:

set var=foo ) got ya

if 1 == 2 (
    set var2=%var%
)

Displays "got was unexpected at this time."

I found the answer here: Batch file variable with spaces and parentheses. Which is to use the extended syntax of set. For example:

set "var2=%var%"

This does not add quotes and does not affect the result stored in %var2%.

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