Refactoring can be pure fun. It can also be helpful for learning or reorganizing and making things easier to maintain. Maybe it's time to bite off a bigger piece and do more of your stuff in a template as recently revisited. :P

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use utf8;
use 5.14.2; # for s///r
use strictures;
use Template;
use Path::Tiny;

# Mocking… you'd replace with your actual routine.
sub Path::Tiny::textify { # Monkey patch.
    my $self = shift;
    join " ",
        map ucfirst,
        split /[\W_]/, $self->basename =~ s/(?<=\w)\.\w{1,3}\z//r;
}

my $tt2 = Template->new;

my @files = grep $_->is_file,
    path(".")->children( qr/\A[A-Z].+/i ); # Should probably have \z t
+oo.

$tt2->process(\*DATA, { files => \@files })
    or warn $Template::ERROR;

__DATA__
<ul>
[%-FOR file IN files %]
  <li>
      <a href="./[% file.basename | uri %]">[% file.textify | html %]<
+/a>
  </li>
[%-END %]
</ul>
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<ul>
  <li>
      <a href="./WADO-OsiriX-notes.txt">WADO OsiriX Notes</a>
  </li>
  <li>
      <a href="./chinese-truncate.pl">Chinese Truncate</a>
  </li>
  <li>
      <a href="./Dockerfile">Dockerfile</a>
  </li>
  …etc…
</ul>
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