You can have a htaccess.tpl and then process it using some templating toolkit of your choice, like Template-Toolkit. It is easier to mantain this way IMHO.

Example: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;

my $template = Template->new();

my $vars = {
    ips_to_block => [qw/10.10.10.1 10.10.11.1/],
};

my $output = '';
$template->process(\*DATA, $vars, \$output) or die $template->error();
print $output;
__DATA__
AuthUserFile /var/apache/htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /var/apache/htgroup
AuthName "My Realm"
AuthType Basic 

order allow,deny
allow from all
[% FOREACH ip_to_block = ips_to_block %]
deny from [% ip_to_block %]
[% END %]

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Hope this helps.

Update:Removed <Limit> tags. Thanks merlyn!

Igor S. Lopes - izut
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In reply to Re: Parsing/validating Apache .htaccess file by izut
in thread Parsing/validating Apache .htaccess file by pingo

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