diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index e43f7adf6d..8bf337192d 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C All\svirtual\stable\sconstructors\sto\sbe\sinvoked\srecursively.\s\sA\stest\scase\sfor\nthis\shas\sbeen\sadded\sto\sTH3.
-D 2012-04-26T22:47:20.079
+C Enhance\sthe\sdo_test\sproc\sin\sthe\stest\ssuite\sso\sthat\sif\sthe\sexpected\sresult\nis\sof\sthe\sform\s"/.../"\sor\s"~/.../"\sthen\sregular\sexpression\smatching\sis\sdone\nbetween\sresult\sand\sthe\s"..."\spart\sof\sthe\sexpectation.\s\sIn\sthe\s~/.../\scase,\nwe\sexpect\sthere\sto\sbe\sno\smatch.
+D 2012-04-27T01:08:02.413
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc d6df77f1f48d690bd73162294bbba7f59507c72f
 F Makefile.in 2f37e468503dbe79d35c9f6dffcf3fae1ae9ec20
 F Makefile.linux-gcc 91d710bdc4998cb015f39edf3cb314ec4f4d7e23
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ F test/tclsqlite.test 1597d353308531527583481d14d9da52ea8ed0af
 F test/tempdb.test 19d0f66e2e3eeffd68661a11c83ba5e6ace9128c
 F test/temptable.test 51edd31c65ed1560dd600b1796e8325df96318e2
 F test/temptrigger.test 26670ed7a39cf2296a7f0a9e0a1d7bdb7abe936d
-F test/tester.tcl dc0f9daa0a7c257df86a1a7603d5df2236e49145
+F test/tester.tcl 17b5f402d0e60e8c8ce751288b228fe9337f40c2
 F test/thread001.test 7cc2ce08f9cde95964736d11e91f9ab610f82f91
 F test/thread002.test e630504f8a06c00bf8bbe68528774dd96aeb2e58
 F test/thread003.test ee4c9efc3b86a6a2767516a37bd64251272560a7
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ F tool/tostr.awk e75472c2f98dd76e06b8c9c1367f4ab07e122d06
 F tool/vdbe-compress.tcl d70ea6d8a19e3571d7ab8c9b75cba86d1173ff0f
 F tool/warnings-clang.sh a8a0a3babda96dfb1ff51adda3cbbf3dfb7266c2
 F tool/warnings.sh fbc018d67fd7395f440c28f33ef0f94420226381
-P dfce8569765614462a3952d1761c10d579984665
-R bec439cef707f78d31474bb08e34e278
+P 696a5a40bb28c4a54c9951f877b67015dc00bf55
+R cec8a879e3e3cce3faf837e46a46ad14
 U drh
-Z 9d4076ab5b78bad3c903da31eaeee8ce
+Z 3ce2501ea7e4d58e039b2073955afa3e
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index f648b7b37a..8010df66ac 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-696a5a40bb28c4a54c9951f877b67015dc00bf55
\ No newline at end of file
+c9a734406c016329e80d887f7438206e41c52ce7
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/tester.tcl b/test/tester.tcl
index d1c4f0bd6c..71100a2e6e 100644
--- a/test/tester.tcl
+++ b/test/tester.tcl
@@ -474,7 +474,6 @@ proc incr_ntest {} {
 # Invoke the do_test procedure to run a single test 
 #
 proc do_test {name cmd expected} {
-
   global argv cmdlinearg
 
   fix_testname name
@@ -505,11 +504,24 @@ proc do_test {name cmd expected} {
     if {[catch {uplevel #0 "$cmd;\n"} result]} {
       puts "\nError: $result"
       fail_test $name
-    } elseif {[string compare $result $expected]} {
-      puts "\nExpected: \[$expected\]\n     Got: \[$result\]"
-      fail_test $name
     } else {
-      puts " Ok"
+      if {[regexp {^~?/.*/$} $expected]} {
+        if {[string index $expected 0]=="~"} {
+          set re [string range $expected 2 end-1]
+          set ok [expr {![regexp $re $result]}]
+        } else {
+          set re [string range $expected 1 end-1]
+          set ok [regexp $re $result]
+        }
+      } else {
+        set ok [expr {[string compare $result $expected]==0}]
+      }
+      if {!$ok} {
+        puts "\nExpected: \[$expected\]\n     Got: \[$result\]"
+        fail_test $name
+      } else {
+        puts " Ok"
+      }
     }
   } else {
     puts " Omitted"