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@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ of the value. The form ${param//#$search/replace} where the value
$search starts with "%" considers the "%" to be part of the search
string as before.
+Parameter subscripts of the form ${array[(R)test]} now return the
+empty string if they fail to match. The previous longstanding behaviour
+was confusing and useless.
+
The MULTIBYTE option is on by default where it is available; this
causes many operations to recognise characters as in the current locale.
Older versions of the shell always assumed a character was one byte.