Accessing variables

Hi, I have a strange question about variables. It seems like I can't access my variable $i from a do/while that sits nested inside of a while loop. If you look at the code below you'll see that I am printing line number twice. What happnes is that The first echo(line) prints that line, lets say 1234, then the second echo prints it bold just prints the same line number 1234 seven times. however $i should be incremented every time. The code is below maybe that'll make more sense. while(list($line_num, $line) = each($httpd_conf)) { if(ereg("@lime", $line)) { $i = ($line_num - 2); echo("$line_num<BR>"); do { $line = "#Removed $httpd_conf[$i]"; //echo("#Removed $httpd_conf[$i]<BR>"); echo("$line<BR>"); echo("<B>$line_num</B><BR>"); $i ++; } while(!ereg("</V", $httpd_conf[$i])); $i = $i++; echo("#Removed $httpd_conf[$i]<BR>"); } fputs($httpd_new, $line); } Thanks Ken N http://cleveland.lug.net/~rocket/ The answer is simple if you grant that ironies are like submarines; dangerous only when submerged.