Error in creating directory

i am using the following command to create a directory in Oracle:-
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY DATALOAD AS ‘D:\temp\udump’
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00911: invalid character
How, can we remove the error? Please, help in solving the doubt.
regards

For eg., the directory 'DATALOAD' is not showing under D:\temp\udump path.Alas you have misunderstood the purpose of DIRECTORY objects in Oracle. They are a way of referring to OS paths abstractly, for instance in calls to UTL_FILE or when creating External Tables.
This is useful for all sorts of reasons. It's safer and easier that setting UTL_FILE_DIR in the init.ora parameters. It's hand if we want our application to run on different operating systems, or just on servers with different directory structures.
What CREATE DIRECTORY does not do is actually create the OS directory; it's just creating a mapping. You have to create the OS directory yourself, using the tool appropriate to your platform, Explorer in your case.
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