You should consider using something like HTML::Template to generate the HTML frame and then do a simple substitution in your text to get the desired formatting. Your template will look something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      <TMPL_VAR ESCAPE="HTML" NAME="title">
    </title>
    <style>
      .hit { font-color: red; font-weight: bolder; }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <TMPL_VAR ESCAPE="HTML" NAME="my_text">
  </body>
</html>

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And your Perl code will resemble this: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# Usage: perl "thisfile.pl inputfile.txt"
use warnings;
use strict;
use HTML::Template;

my $title = "Page Title"; # or a variable representing a 
                          # command-line argument, or             
                          # something extracted from your 
                          # input file.
my $text;

{
  local $/ = undef;
  $text = <>;
}

$text =~ s/\b(myword)\b/<span class="hit">$1</span>
/g;

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'my_template.tmpl');

$template->param(date => "$title");
$template->param(date => "$text");

print $template->output;

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Caveat: I haven't tested this code.

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In reply to Re: Need help with a Simple File, transferring a plain text document to a plain HTML document by allolex
in thread Need help with a Simple File, transferring a plain text document to a plain HTML document by Anonymous Monk

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