Do your editing in the VLIDE or Notepad (or some variant of Notepad). IOW, an ASCII file editor.
Your "QUOTE" marks are not ASCII character 34, they are the "curly" quotes, characters 8220 and 8221
(defun c:AUTOLAYERFT2 ()
(setvar "ctab" "BV")
(command "_MSpace")
)
Here is your code, copy and pasted into the VLIDE