----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, April 4, 2005 11:30 pm
Subject: multiple statments with ||
> Hello,
Yo
>
> 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 ?
open(fileid, "/tmp/mysql_lastid") or $lastid=0 , print "watch the presidance\n";
>
> Michael.
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