The error message actually pinpoints it for you. Problem on line 19.....Might be runaway line near '' on line >>>18<<<. The problem is that the \ char ESCAPES other characters so if you want a LITERAL \ you need to type \\ Note that single quotes and backslashes may cause you confusion. See fix below:

# ***** This is the problem *****
# Path     =>'C:\a\cursors\',

# ***** This works, note \\ and double quotes " *****
Path => "C:\\a\\cursors\\",
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Note that \\ in Win32 is a pain. Unless you are executing stuff through the shell using backtics or system you can just use / ie open FILE, "C:/WINNT/system32/some.file" works just fine.

With the error messages they look complex but the problem is usually trivial. Missing ; Forgetting to close quotes (or stating with " and ending with ' or vice versa) and missing braces { } are the most common culprits.

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