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Patricia LimPatricia Lim 

Process Automation Specialist Challenge 2 Validation Rule Apex Code syntax error

Hi all, I am trying to complete the second step of the process automation specialist creating a validation rule however it is giving me a syntax error despite using code that others have used with no errors:
  
OR( AND( LEN(BillingState) > 2, NOT(CONTAINS(“AL:AK:AZ:AR:CA:CO:CT:DE:DC:FL:GA:HI:ID:IL:IN:IA:KS:KY:LA:ME:MD:MA:MI:MN:MS:MO:MT:NE:NV:NH:NJ:NM:NY:NC:ND:OH:OK:OR:PA:RI:SC:SD:TN:TX:UT:VT:VA:WA:WV:WI:WY”, BillingState )) ), AND( LEN(ShippingState) > 2, NOT(CONTAINS(“AL:AK:AZ:AR:CA:CO:CT:DE:DC:FL:GA:HI:ID:IL:IN:IA:KS:KY:LA:ME:MD:MA:MI:MN:MS:MO:MT:NE:NV:NH:NJ:NM:NY:NC:ND:OH:OK:OR:PA:RI:SC:SD:TN:TX:UT:VT:VA:WA:WV:WI:WY”, ShippingState)) ), NOT(OR(BillingCountry =”US”,BillingCountry =”USA”,BillingCountry =”United States”, ISBLANK(BillingCountry))), NOT(OR(ShippingCountry =”US”,ShippingCountry =”USA”,ShippingCountry =”United States”, ISBLANK(ShippingCountry))) )

I am not a dev, however I am trying to learn the basics as an admin
AbhishekAbhishek (Salesforce Developers) 
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David Zhu 🔥David Zhu 🔥
The fomular should work. The issue is you use unicode quotation mark “ in the formular, replace it with ASCII ".
  
OR( AND( LEN(BillingState) > 2, NOT(CONTAINS("AL:AK:AZ:AR:CA:CO:CT:DE:DC:FL:GA:HI:ID:IL:IN:IA:KS:KY:LA:ME:MD:MA:MI:MN:MS:MO:MT:NE:NV:NH:NJ:NM:NY:NC:ND:OH:OK:OR:PA:RI:SC:SD:TN:TX:UT:VT:VA:WA:WV:WI:WY", BillingState )) ), AND( LEN(ShippingState) > 2, NOT(CONTAINS("AL:AK:AZ:AR:CA:CO:CT:DE:DC:FL:GA:HI:ID:IL:IN:IA:KS:KY:LA:ME:MD:MA:MI:MN:MS:MO:MT:NE:NV:NH:NJ:NM:NY:NC:ND:OH:OK:OR:PA:RI:SC:SD:TN:TX:UT:VT:VA:WA:WV:WI:WY", ShippingState)) ), NOT(OR(BillingCountry ="US",BillingCountry ="USA",BillingCountry ="United States", ISBLANK(BillingCountry))), NOT(OR(ShippingCountry ="US",ShippingCountry ="USA",ShippingCountry ="United States", ISBLANK(ShippingCountry))) )