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use the gets statement of the class File.


file6 = File.new("C:\\Ruby\\Sample")
str=file6.gets
puts str

# In this code, the file6.gets statement will pass the contents of the file Sample to the str variable. The puts str statement will output the contents to the screen.

 
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