As you will have realized by now, there are many ways to do this with Perl. However as you are migrating from PHP, I would suggest that you would enjoy a smoother transition by using one of Perl's 'code in HTML' frameworks.
There are a number of mature solutions to chose from here e.g. Mason, Apache::ASP or EmbPerl
I'm quite fond of Mason - there's a free book available; e.g. to include your anouncments file, you could just do:
<!-- other HTML -->
<& anouncments.txt &>
<!-- more HTML -->
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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