/strong> wildcard is actually just an alias for a regular
expression and used to be executed in that manner as <strong>.+</strong>. This is
considered a bug, as it also matches the / (forward slash) character, which
is the URI segment delimiter and that was never the intention.</p>
<p>In CodeIgniter 3, the <strong>:any</strong> wildcard will now represent <strong>[^/]+</strong>, so
that it will not match a forward slash.</p>
<p>There are certainly many developers that have utilized this bug as an actual
fea