need help with .htaccess

[eluser]Yours3lf[/eluser]
Thanks Adam Liszkai,

I didn't know CI has a feature like this
This gave me the idea to do things like this.
The suggested form of the regex didn't work, but after looking up this feature in the CI user guide, I came up with this:

$route['name1/(:any)'] = "controller/function1/$1";

works like charm