I'll have to add my $0.02 and pimp for HTML::Template which works a treat for simple templating.

This is in my template and we'll put <TMPL_VAR NAME=TEXT> here.
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my $t = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'blah.tmpl');
$t->param(TEXT => 'some text');
print $t->output;
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:)