Unparsable MOF Query When Trying to Register Event

Update 2

I accepted an answer and asked a different question elsewhere, where I am still trying to get to the bottom of this.

I don't think that one-lining this query is the answer, as I am still not getting the required results (and multi-lining queries is allowed in .mof, as shown in the URLs in comments to the answer ...

Update

I rewrote the query as a one-liner as suggested, but still got the same error! As it was still talking about lines 11-19 I knew there must be another issue. After saving a new file with the change, I reran mofcomp and it appears to have loaded, but the event which I have subscribed to simply does not work.

I really feel that there is not enough documentation on this topic and it is hard to work out how I am meant to debug this - any help on this would be much appreciated, even if this means using a different more appropriate method.

I have the following .mof file, which I would like to use to register an event on my system :

#pragma namespace("\\\\.\\root\\subscription")

instance of __EventFilter as $EventFilter
{
    Name  = "Event Filter Instance Name";
    Query = "Select * from __InstanceCreationEvent within 1 "
            "where targetInstance isa \"Cim_DirectoryContainsFile\" "
            "and targetInstance.GroupComponent = \"Win32_Directory.Name=\"c:\\\\test\"\"";
    QueryLanguage = "WQL";
    EventNamespace = "Root\\Cimv2";
};

instance of ActiveScriptEventConsumer as $Consumer
{
    Name = "TestConsumer";
    ScriptingEngine = "VBScript";
    ScriptText =
    "Set objFSO = CreateObject(\"Scripting.FileSystemObject\")\n"
    "Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(\"c:\\test\\Log.txt\", 8, True)\n"
    "objFile.WriteLine Time & \" \" & \" File Created\"\n"
    "objFile.Close\n";
    
    // Specify any other relevant properties.
};

instance of __FilterToConsumerBinding
{
    Filter = $EventFilter;
    Consumer = $Consumer;
};

But whenever I run the command mfcomp myfile.mof I am getting this error:

Parsing MOF file: myfile.mof

MOF file has been successfully parsed

Storing data in the repository...

An error occurred while processing item 1 defined on lines 11 - 19 in file myfile.mof:

Error Number: 0x80041058, Facility: WMI

Description: Unparsable query.

Compiler returned error 0x80041058

This error appears to be caused by incorrect syntax in the query, but I don't understand where I have gone wrong with this - is anyone able to advise?

Solution

There are no string concatenation or line continuation characters being used in building "Query". To keep it simple, you could put the entire query on one line.