Problem: Routing Using Wild Cards

[eluser]Shiju S S[/eluser]
I have a route defined as follows

Code:

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
$route['default_controller'] = "frontarea/frontpage";
$route['404_override'] = '';
$route['home'] = "frontarea/frontpage";

// Admin Area
$route['([admin][a-z_]+)'] = 'adminarea/$1';
$route['([admin][a-z_]+)/(:any)'] = 'adminarea/$1/$2';
$route['([admin][a-z_]+)/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'adminarea/$1/$2/$3';
$route['([admin][a-z_]+)/(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'adminarea/$1/$2/$3/$4';


// Franchise Area

$route['([franchisee]+[a-z_]+)'] = 'franchiseearea/$1';
$route['([franchisee]+[a-z_]+)/(:any)'] = 'franchiseearea/$1/$2';
$route['([franchisee]+[a-z_]+)/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'franchiseearea/$1/$2/3';
$route['([franchisee]+[a-z_]+)/(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'franchiseearea/$1/$2/$3/$4';

// front Area
$route['([front][a-z_]+)'] = 'frontarea/$1';
$route['([front][a-z_]+)/(:any)'] = 'frontarea/$1/$2';
$route['([front][a-z_]+)/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'frontarea/$1/$2/3';
$route['([front][a-z_]+)/(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'frontarea/$1/$2/$3/$4';

// staff Area
$route['([staff]+[a-z_]+)'] = 'staffarea/$1';
$route['([staff][a-z_]+)/(:any)'] = 'staffarea/$1/$2';
$route['([staff][a-z_]+)/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'staffarea/$1/$2/3';
$route['([staff][a-z_]+)/(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'staffarea/$1/$2/$3/$4';

URLs like

adminreports/printreport/1
franchiseereports/printreport/1

is working correctlyis working correctly

but

frontpage/printreport/1
staffreport/printreport/1

is not working

When I placed the staff part in the top it is working !
What I could under stand is that only the first 2 sections is routing correctly. After that I am getting a
404 Page not found error.