win_environment - setting variable to value starting with %

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Hi

I am trying to set some environment variables to make the value start with %, and I am getting errors.

For example, if I wanted to set the TEMP environment to c:\temp

and then I want to set the PATH environment variable to %TEMP%

I am getting error “found character that cannot start any token”

I assume this is because % is a special character and cannot be at the beginning of a string. How do I get around this?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

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Actually, I figured this out

Instead of the value being referenced as:

value: %test%
or
value: ‘%test%’ which I think did not work as well

I put the value on the next line

value:
‘%test%’

And this works now as I needed.