diff --git a/plugins/include/regex.inc b/plugins/include/regex.inc
index 596e9111..fe0f4005 100755
--- a/plugins/include/regex.inc
+++ b/plugins/include/regex.inc
@@ -305,16 +305,12 @@ native Regex:regex_match_all(const string[], const pattern[], flags = 0, error[]
 stock regex_match_simple(const str[], const pattern[], flags = 0, error[]= "", maxLen = 0, &errcode = 0)
 {
 	new Regex:regex = regex_compile_ex(pattern, flags, error, maxLen, errcode);
-
-	if (regex < 0)
+	if (regex < REGEX_NO_MATCH)
 	{
 		return -1;
 	}
-
-	new substrings = regex_match_c(regex, str);
-
+	new substrings = regex_match_c(str, regex);
 	regex_free(regex);
-
 	return substrings;
 }