+# out-of-range substrings
+var=abc
+c=${var:3}
+expect nothing
+recho $c
+c=${var:4}
+expect nothing
+recho $c
+expect '<./new-exp.tests: -2: substring expression < 0>'
+c=${var:0:-2}
+
+var=abcdefghi
+c=${var:3:12}
+recho $c
+c=${var:4:20}
+recho $c
+
+# make sure null patterns work
+xxx=endocrine
+yyy=n
+unset zzz
+
+recho ${xxx/$yyy/*}
+recho ${xxx//$yyy/*}
+
+recho ${xxx/$zzz/*}
+recho ${xxx//$zzz/*}
+
+# another case that caused a core dump in bash-2.0
+XPATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/gnu/bin::/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/sbin
+
+recho ${XPATH//:/ }
+
+xx=(ar as at au av aw ax ay az)
+
+recho ${xx[@]/a/}
+recho ${xx[@]//a/}
+
+recho ${xx[*]/a/}
+recho ${xx[*]//a/}
+
+recho ${xx[@]%?}
+recho ${xx[*]%?}
+
+recho ${xx[@]#?}
+recho ${xx[*]#?}
+
+set -- ar as at au av aw ax ay az
+
+recho ${@/a/}
+recho ${@//a/}
+
+recho ${*/a/}
+recho ${*//a/}
+
+recho ${@%?}
+recho ${*%?}
+
+recho ${@#?}
+recho ${*#?}
+
+shift $#
+set -u
+( recho $9 ; echo after 1)
+( recho ${9} ; echo after 2)
+( recho $UNSET ; echo after 3)
+( recho ${UNSET} ; echo after 4)
+( recho "$UNSET" ; echo after 5)
+( recho "${UNSET}" ; echo after 6)
+( recho "${#UNSET}" ; echo after 7)
+set +u
+