[SOLVED] Reduce the number of routing rules?

[eluser]JayTee[/eluser]
I have a set of routing rules that looks like this:

Code:

$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "$2/$3/$4";
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "$2/$3";
$route['(:any)/(:any)'] = "$2";

The goal is to make sure CI always ignores segment 1 (I'm using that segment for something special)

Is there any way to always ignore segment 1 regardless of how many segments occur after it without having to make lots of different routes like I had to do above?

SOLVED: - my last response