is the non-breaking space character, it was more than likely added in when someone formatted the text before you copied & pasted it. You can see in the code where they are, open the snippet in a plain text editor and remove those spaces. Be sure you are pasting the code in as plain text.
Scott, the weird thing is I tried that before I posted and it still showed up. Tried it again just now and the error is gone. Damn it feels more like a Monday than a Friday.