I don't exactly understand what gets.chomp does in ruby.

Question

I'm confused here. When we use gets let's say like this:

Inf = gets

Does the program consider whatever I submit AND the entire next line(space) as well as the value of inf? For instance if I submit "hello" , that won't be the only value of inf but the entire next empty line will also be considered the value of inf?

I saw a similar example in the methods part in sololearn.

Def greet(name=" ")
If name =" "
Puts "Greetings!"
else
Puts "Welcome, #{name}"
end
end

greet(gets.chomp)

When I used gets it didnt work as planned. I submitted nothing and yet it still didnt say "Greetings!" But said "welcome, "
But when I used gets.chomp it worked.

Answer 1

Any input value, even nil values are different from no value at all.

See this:
https://code.sololearn.com/cROGMMwTo4n0/?ref=app