Trouble with accepting user input

[invalid6363]

hello, i'm new to ruby and i'm trying a to write a simple greeting program that accepts input from the user (user's name) but its not completely working the way i would like it to. It doesn't print out the goodbye messages and doesn't work when nothing is typed in (Hello World should print out).

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class SuperGreeter
  
  print "Enter your name: "
  @name = gets
  
  # Say hello
    if @name == ""
      puts "Hello World!"
    else
      puts "Hello #{@name}"
      puts "Nice to meet you."
    end
  
  print "Are you staying?[y/n]: "
  @answer = gets
  
  # Say Goodbye
    if @answer == ""
      puts "Goodbye World!"
    elsif @answer == "y"
      puts "Thanks for sticking around."
    elsif @answer == "n"
      puts "Goodbye #{@name}, and come back soon!"
    end

end

if someone can help me i would really appreciate it.
Thank you.

 

[feherke]

Hi

That is because the new line characters are still there even if you typed nothing else. Just [tt]chomp[/tt] it :

@name = gets.[url=http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000834]chomp[/url]

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[invalid6363]

Oh, ok. Thanks for your help. I made the change in the code and it works perfectly now.