Fail to extract PROGRAMFILES(X86) environment variable using powershell

After long time, today i wasted almost 30 minutes on a stupid mistake, i tried to have a PS script that will run a program from “%ProgramFiles(X86)\A-Program.exe”

So i tried using “$Env:PROGRAMFILES(X86)\A-Program.exe” and it failed coz it said its trying to run from: “c:\program files(X86)\A-Program.exe” and directory doesn’t exist

so after digging i saw that the problem is powershell took the first part of the string and extracted the programfiles environment variable :( (there was no space between it and the (X86) ), than again how was he suppose to know…

Solution was to use: “${env:PROGRAMFILES(X86)}\A-Program.exe”

Hope it will save you some time