BASH Syntax error near unexpected token 'done'

Question

Any idea of what the problem could be?

My code is:

#!/bin/bash
while :
do
echo \"Press [CTRL+C] to stop..\"
sleep 1
done

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Answer 1

Might help someone else : I encountered the same kind of issues while I had done some "copy-paste" from a side Microsoft Word document, where I took notes, to my shell script(s).

Re-writing, manually, the exact same code in the script just solved this.

It was quite un-understandable at first, I think Word's hidden characters and/or formatting were the issue. Obvious but not see-able ... I lost about one hour on this (I'm no shell expert, as you might guess ...)