If you just want to display certain text in the fields just print the form element out with the text as the value.

You could use any of the various html template modules or just print a here document...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $text = "Display this";

print <<END_HTML;

<form action="blah.pl">
    <input type="text" name="stuff" value="$text" />
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

END_HTML
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