I would use HTML::Template and Storable for this purpose. I've done this for a simple guestbook before and it works quite good. An example: 
#!c:/Perl/bin/Perl.exe
##
##  guestbook.cgi - a simple guestbook
##

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Html::Template;
use Storable;

#
# CGI Variables
#

my $q = new CGI;
my $name     = $q->escapeHTML($q->param('name'))     || '';
my $mail     = $q->escapeHTML($q->param('mail'))     || '';
my $text     = $q->escapeHTML($q->param('text'))     || '';
my $action    = $q->param('action')     || '';

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'guestbook.tmpl', die_o
+n_bad_params => 0);
my $entries = retrieve 'guestbook.dat';

#
# main()
#

&add_new_entry() if ($action eq 'add');
&flush_entries() if ($action eq 'flush');

print $q->header();
$template->param(entries => $entries);
print $template->output();
store $entries, 'guestbook.dat' or die "Can't store guestbook.dat: $!\
+n";
exit();

#
# Subroutines
#

sub add_new_entry {
  $text =~ s/\n/<br \/>/g;
  unshift @$entries, { name => $name, mail => $mail, text => $text };
}

sub flush_entries {
  $entries = [];
}

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In reply to Re: Simple Data storage by neniro
in thread Simple Data storage by Hissingsid

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