I would still go with HTML::Template.

You could change how it looked:

<select name="whatever">
  <!-- TMPL_LOOP NAME="whatever_select" -->
    <option 
      value="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="id" -->" 
      <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="checked" -->
    >
      <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="value" -->
    </option>
  <!-- /TMPL_LOOP -->
</select>
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This would need an array ref anyway.

$array_ref = [
  {
    id => id1,
    checked => 'selected',
    value => 'one',
  },
  {
    id => id2,
    checked => '',
    value => 'two',
  },
  {
    id => id3,
    checked => '',
    value => 'three',
  },
];
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