in reply to importing HTML code into perl

I have HTML files that I want to recreate multiple times with some different text.

Depending on how much customization you want to do, an alternative to using print statements is to include the HTML verbatim after __DATA__, slurp the HTML into a variable, then use regexp substitutions to tweak things. This looks something like: 

  # slurp in the HTML
  my $html = do { local $/; <DATA> };

  # customize the HTML here, via regexp
  $html =~ s/SUB1/$sub1/g;
  $html =~ s/SUB2/$sub2/g;
  ... etc.

  print $html;
  __DATA__
  <html>
  ...

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I do this a lot for quick-and-dirty templating. It's a lot easier to tweak the HTML this way than to break it apart into separate print statements, and you don't have to worry about escaping special characters. For anything heavier-weight, look into one of the various template packages.

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