diff --git a/test/cmd/setexpr.c b/test/cmd/setexpr.c
index a6940fd..d06dda2 100644
--- a/test/cmd/setexpr.c
+++ b/test/cmd/setexpr.c
@@ -277,12 +277,11 @@
 	ut_assertok(setexpr_regex_sub(buf, BUF_SIZE, nbuf, BUF_SIZE,
 				      "(this) (is) (surely|indeed)",
 				      "us \\1 \\2 \\3!", true));
-
-	/* The following checks fail at present due to bugs in setexpr */
-	return 0;
 	ut_asserteq_str("us this is surely! a test is it? yes us this is indeed! a test",
 			buf);
 
+	/* The following checks fail at present due to a bug in setexpr */
+	return 0;
 	for (i = BUF_SIZE; i < 0x1000; i++) {
 		ut_assertf(buf[i] == (char)i,
 			   "buf byte at %x should be %02x, got %02x)\n",