multiple statments with ||

[Michael Gale]

Hello,
I have the following piece of code:
--snip--
if ($_ eq "read") {
        open(fileid, "/tmp/mysql_lastid") || $lastid=0;
        $lastid = <fileid>;
        close(fileid);
        }
--snip--
With the fail of opening the file, I want the variable to be set to zero 
and print a message to standard out. How can I do both ?

Michael.
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