Perhaps I'm missing something, but what's wrong with the plain old CGI module?
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser/;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
$|++;
my $fontname = "italic 1em Arial, sans-serif";
open F, '>', "output.html" or die "output.html: $!\n";
print F start_html,
div({ style => "font: $fontname;" }, "\n",
pre("Hello, World!"), "\n",
pre("CGI example, with font '$fontname'")
),
end_html;
Update: Removed the call to 'header' from the print statement; it's unnecessary if you're writing to a file, of course.
Update2: Since I'd used literal text strings, I'd forgotten about converting various characters to HTML entities (thanks, Corion!) This is easily done either via HTML::Entities or possibly by processing the text through something like this:
my %s;
@s{split //, '<>&'} = qw/lt gt amp/;
my $text = do { local $/; <Input> };
$text =~ s/([<>&])/"&$s{$1};"/ges;
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