*hypf*

When the parentheses are passed within some parameter or variable into a for loop such as this one in a cmd script:

for /f „usebackq tokens=1–5“ %%S in (sc %PAR%) DO (IF /I [„%%U“] EQU [„FAILED“] (endlocal & exit /b %%V))

where in this case %PAR% may be an SDDL string containing parentheses – even escaping them won't help. The escaping is gone when the %PAR% is replaced with the parameters content and breaks the for loop when it is finally executed.

Does anybody know a way around this?