system() is documented as returning the system return code (success/failure). And you can't echo tons of lines. It's not that easy.

I'm silly. Disregard my code. wog showed me the error of my ways.

Use pipes instead:

# interact with txt2html
pipe(READ, WRITE);

open WRITE, "| txt2html --extract";
print WRITE $plaintext;
close WRITE;

{ local $/; $html = <READ>; }
close READ;
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Use IPC::Open2.

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