s/%tag%/$value/g if defined $value;
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If your variables aren't declared, you could copy them to an hashref and pass this hashref to your template parser.

$hash = {key1 => 'value', key2 => 'value'};
...
foreach my $key (keys %$hash) {
    s/%$key%/$hash->{$key}/eg;
}
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