--- !ruby/object:RI::MethodDescription aliases: [] block_params: comment: - !ruby/struct:SM::Flow::P body: Reads the next ``line'' from the I/O stream; lines are separated by sep_string. A separator of nil reads the entire contents, and a zero-length separator reads the input a paragraph at a time (two successive newlines in the input separate paragraphs). The stream must be opened for reading or an IOError will be raised. The line read in will be returned and also assigned to $_. Returns nil if called at end of file. - !ruby/struct:SM::Flow::VERB body: " File.new("testfile").gets #=> "This is line one\\n"\n $_ #=> "This is line one\\n"\n" full_name: IO#gets is_singleton: false name: gets params: | ios.gets(sep_string=$/) => string or nil visibility: public