As Mr. Muskrat suggests you really should consider using a templating system. I recommend HTML::Template is a fairly easy entry point for this sort of task. Consider:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Template qw();
use CGI qw();

my $fName = 'sample.html';
open my $temp, '>', $fName or die "Can't create $fName: $!\n";
print $temp <<'HTML';
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
    <head>
    <title><TMPL_VAR name="title"></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-88
+59-1" />
    </head>

    <body>
        <div id="<TMPL_VAR name="divname">">
        <TMPL_LOOP name="divs">   <div><TMPL_VAR name="div"></div>
        </TMPL_LOOP></div>
    </body>
</html>
HTML
close $temp;

my $tmpl       = HTML::Template->new(filename => $fName);
my @fields     = qw(Hello Goodbye Friend Adios Amigo);
my @loopParams = map {{div => $_}} @fields;

print CGI::header();
$tmpl->param(title => "testme");
$tmpl->param(divname => 'div-test');
$tmpl->param(divs    => \@loopParams);
print $tmpl->output();

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Prints:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
    <head>
    <title>testme</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-88
+59-1" />
    </head>

    <body>
        <div id="div-test">
           <div>Hello</div>
           <div>Goodbye</div>
           <div>Friend</div>
           <div>Adios</div>
           <div>Amigo</div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

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True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: Calling functions in middle of CGI HTML declarations by GrandFather
in thread Calling functions in middle of CGI HTML declarations by dr.jekyllandme

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