htaccess rewrite efficiency

Is there a better way to code this?

[DustinGreen]

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hey guys and gals, this is my first post/question.

Im just getting the hang of this .htaccess thing and im wondering if there is a smarter way to write this code:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/index.php?$ index.php?reg=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/index.php?$ index.php?reg=$1&statename_=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/index.php?$ index.php?reg=$1&statename_=$2&city_=$3
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/index.php?$ index.php?reg=$1&statename_=$2&city_=$3&hotelid=$4
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/index.php?$ index.php?reg=$1&statename_=$2&city_=$3&hotelid=$4&mod=$5 [L]

[jdMorgan]

Suggestions:

Use the [NC] flag to make pattern-matching case-insensitive. This allows you to use [A-Z] or [a-z] instead of [A-Za-z].

Use the [L] flag on every rule, unless you need to process the output of that rule through a subsequent rule.

Put your rules in order, from most-frequently-matched to least.

Jim

[DustinGreen]

cool thx that helped