bash (or zsh) regular expression matching

I wanted to be able to write conditionnal on string matching in bash. One easy way to do that is :

if echo "$fic" | egrep "regexp" > /dev/null; then
    echo "it matches !"
else
    echo "it doesn't matches"
fi

But I found it a litle too long. This why I have written the small script match :

echo $1 | egrep $2 > /dev/null

in order to be able to write the more readable (in my point of vue) command :

if match "$fic" "regexp"; then
    echo "it matches !"
else
    echo "it doesn't matches"
fi