I agree with jepri's comments about not re-inventing the wheel, but when you're forced to, you might as well use a few tricks to make your life easier.

In particular, when writing HTML, you can use single-quotes instead of double-quotes. Such as:     print "<A HREF='http://www.perlmonks.org'>Perl Monks</A>\n"; This will save you the agony of having to escape every double quote instance, which can add up to a lot of pain for large files.