This subroutine sets $guess to the letter from the terminal and erases the letter from @alphabet.
Get a guess from the keyboard like sec.5.1, Terminal Input.
sub erase_guess {
while(<>){
chomp; # Trim the newline from $_
$guess = lc($_); # convert to lower case
# $i is an iteration variable for @alphabet
# $alphabet[4] is 'e', $alphabet[13] is 'n', etc.
$i = 0;
foreach $l (@alphabet){
# Replace the letter with a space.
if ($l eq $guess){
$alphabet[$i] = " ";
}
$i++;
}
last; # One letter at a time
}
}