Question

There are something in the user guide like this

(:num) will match a segment containing only numbers.

so I do this

//using wildcard
$route['tool/reply/(\d+)'] = "tool/reply/$1";
//or using regx like this
//$route['tool/reply/(:num)'] = "tool/reply/$1";

But it not only matches numeric numbers, it matches strings as well. What happened? Did I miss something?

Answer 1

Try having your function tool/reply to something like tool/reply_numeric. It could be getting confused and just be routing to your controller and skipping your routes.