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Square Brackets - Escaping

To make it easy to use left and right square brackets in formatted strings, MAKEMSI defines these macros:

#define  LSB  [\[]        ;;[
#define  RSB  [\]]        ;;]

The following "Shortcut" command's fragment will fail:

<$Shortcut Arguments='//NoLogo "[INSTALLDIR]Something[SquareCharsBeforeAndAfterCanBeMisInterpreted].vbs"' ...>

This one with the brackets replaced (where they aren't used for formatting) will not fail:

<$Shortcut Arguments='//NoLogo "[INSTALLDIR]Something<$LSB>SquareCharsBeforeAndAfterCanBeMisInterpreted<$RSB>.vbs"' ...>

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