diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_readmemstr.mem b/test_regress/t/t_readmemstr.mem
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+0101
diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_readmemstr.py b/test_regress/t/t_readmemstr.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# DESCRIPTION: Verilator: Verilog Test driver/expect definition
+#
+# Copyright 2024 by Wilson Snyder. This program is free software; you
+# can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU
+# Lesser General Public License Version 3 or the Perl Artistic License
+# Version 2.0.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only OR Artistic-2.0
+
+import vltest_bootstrap
+
+test.scenarios('simulator')
+
+test.compile(verilator_flags2=["--exe --main --timing"])
+
+test.execute()
+
+test.passes()
diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_readmemstr.v b/test_regress/t/t_readmemstr.v
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+// DESCRIPTION: Verilator: Verilog Test module
+//
+// This file ONLY is placed under the Creative Commons Public Domain, for
+// any use, without warranty, 2024 by Dan Petrisko
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+
+module test_rom #(parameter filename_p);
+
+    logic [3:0] mem [0:0];
+    initial begin
+        $readmemb(filename_p, mem);
+        if (mem[0][0] != 1'b1) $stop;
+        if (mem[0][1] != 1'b0) $stop;
+        if (mem[0][2] != 1'b1) $stop;
+        if (mem[0][3] != 1'b0) $stop;
+    end
+
+endmodule
+
+module Test;
+
+    // %Warning: $readmem file not found
+    localparam string str_trace_file_lp = "t/t_readmemstr.mem";
+    test_rom #(.filename_p(str_trace_file_lp)) str_rom();
+
+    // Successfully finds file
+    localparam def_trace_file_lp = "t/t_readmemstr.mem";
+    test_rom #(.filename_p(def_trace_file_lp)) def_rom();
+
+    initial begin
+        #1000;
+        $finish;
+    end
+
+endmodule
+