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erroneous construct:

IF ==bar ECHO Equal

Similarly, if %foo% contains abc def, then a different syntax error results:

IF abc def==bar ECHO Equal

The usual way to prevent this problem is to surround variable expansions in quotes so that an empty variable expands into the valid expression IF ""=="bar" instead of the invalid IF ==bar. The text that is being compared

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