Oh, no argument there, though being "highly annoyed" may point to some grumpiness.

It is clearly not a regex engine, but it operates like a very very naive one, and uses the Perl syntax for them.

Ultimately Regex just seemed like the easiest / clearest way of describing the functionality. IE, if I say "Skype supports the Perl Regex syntax for simple word substitution" you probably instantly think of s/a/b/.

Maybe I should have used that as the headline, but it seemed a bit long.