Im really really a newbie in regexp and I can’t figure out how to do that.

My goal is to have the `RewriteRule` to 'slice' the request URL path in 3 parts:

```
example.com/foo
#should return: index.php?a=foo&b=&c=

example.com/foo/bar
#should return: index.php?a=foo&b=bar&c=

example.com/foo/bar/baz
#should return: index.php?a=foo&b=bar&c=baz

example.com/foo/bar/baz/bee
#should return: index.php?a=foo&b=bar&c=baz/bee

example.com/foo/bar/baz/bee/apple
#should return: index.php?a=foo&b=bar&c=baz/bee/apple

example.com/foo/bar/baz/bee/apple/and/whatever/else/no/limit/in/those/extra/parameters
#should return: index.php?a=foo&b=bar&c=baz/bee/apple/and/whatever/else/no/limit/in/those/extra/parameters

```

In short, the first segment in the URL path (`foo`) should be given to *a*, the second segment (`bar`) to *b*, and the rest of the string in *c*

I wroted this one

```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
  RewriteRule ^(([a-z0-9/]))?(([a-z0-9/]+))?(([a-z0-9]+))(.*)$ index.php?a=$1&b=$2&c=$3 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

```

But obviously doesn’t work, and I don’t even know if what I want is possible.

Any suggestion?

**EDIT:** 
After playing with coach manager, I got this one working too:

```
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)?/?([^/]*)?/?(.*)?$ index.php?a=$1&b=$2&c=$3 [L,QSA]

```