An other solution is to use Text::Template:

use Text::Template 'fill_in_file';
my $TEMPLATE= 'my.templ';

# ...

my $filled_template= fill_in_file( $TEMPLATE);
# I usually use the HASH option to separate variables that
# go in the template from variables in the code
# my $filled_template= fill_in_file( $TEMPLATE,
#                                    HASH => { title => $title,
#                                              fields => \%fields
#                                            }
#                                         );

print $filled_template;

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In the template, variables (or any Perl code) are delimited by { ... }, you can use alternate delimiters if you want (it will be a little faster but the delimiter should not appear in the embedded code), use the argument DELIMITERS => [$open, $close]:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US">
  <head>
    <title>My Kewl Page</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
+>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>{$title}</h1>
    <p>Field1: {$field{field1}}</p>
   { "<p>Field2: $field{field2}</p>" if( $field{field2} }
  </body>
</html>

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In reply to Re: Template Question by mirod
in thread Template Question by Anonymous Monk

Title:
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