I think you're better off using a Templating engine. For example to create a htmlfile filled by a perl data structure using the fabulous Template-Toolkit:

script: 
use strict;
use warnings;

use Template;

#you would normally take this from a file
my $template = join "", <DATA>;

#some sample data
my %data =
(
    title => "My Albums",
    albums =>
    [
        {

            artist=>"Some Musician",
            songs=>
            [
                "Some Song",
                "Some Other Song",
            ]
        },
        {
            artist=>"DocMarten",
            songs=>
            [
                "The Doc goes wild",
                "Heavy Shoes",
            ]
        }
    ]
);

#create template object and execute template
my $tt       = Template->new();
$tt->process (\$template, \%data, "myfile.html");

__DATA__
<html>
<head>
<title>[% title %]</title>
</head>
<body>
    [% FOR album = albums %]
        <h1>[% album.artist %]</h1>
        [% FOR song = album.songs %]
        <h2>[% song %]<h2>
        [% END %]
    [% END %]
</body>

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Output (myfile.html): 
<html>
<head>
<title>My Albums</title>
</head>
<body>
    
        <h1>Some Musician</h1>
        
        <h2>Some Song<h2>
        
        <h2>Some Other Song<h2>
        
    
        <h1>DocMarten</h1>
        
        <h2>The Doc goes wild<h2>
        
        <h2>Heavy Shoes<h2>
        
    
</body>

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holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Re: Generating HTML from a Hashref of Hashrefs by holli
in thread Generating HTML from a Hashref of Hashrefs by rje

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