Well, it seems you have rolled your own templating system ... however simple and undocumented ... there is really nothing to comment on there

except, well, you're confused about strict/scope, but that is about it

Tutorials: Getting Deeper Into Perl: Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics

Tutorials: Getting Deeper Into Perl: Coping with Scoping

Read this if you want to cut your development time in half!