Hmm... would a templating system do what you are after? Taking an example from the HTML::Template documentation, perhaps you could try something like this:

In the template:

<TMPL_LOOP NAME=EMPLOYEE_INFO>
Name: <TMPL_VAR NAME=NAME> <P>
Job: <TMPL_VAR NAME=JOB> <P>
<P>
</TMPL_LOOP>


In the script:

$template->param(EMPLOYEE_INFO => [ 
                    { name => 'Sam', job => 'programmer' },
                    { name => 'Steve', job => 'soda jerk' },
                                  ]
                   );
print $template->output();


The output:


Name: Sam <P>
Job: programmer <P>
<P>
Name: Steve <P>
Job: soda jerk <P>
<P>
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Again, that code is from the documentation, I just cut and pasted it.

With that though, you can just create some sort of header and footer, and use HTML::Template's TMPL_INCLUDE directive to pull in more HTML content as necessary.

This is just an example though, and there are plenty of templating systems available in Perl if this doesn't suit your needs. HTH!
-Eric

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