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instance method

StringIO#gets

gets(sep = $/, chomp: false) → string or nil
gets(limit, chomp: false) → string or nil
gets(sep, limit, chomp: false) → string or nil

Reads and returns a line from the stream; assigns the return value to $_; see Line IO.

See also #getc #internal_encoding #getbyte #isatty also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0