I wrote Plugin::Simple, primarily because I had a bit of time and wanted to write my own basic plugin architecture for a learning exercise. Here's a runtime snip of actually loading a plugin. It can be in the form of a file name with a path, a filename without a path, or a standard Module::IAm syntax. The load() function is brought in from Module::Load.

The conditional load doesn't affect the program, it simply determines whether the plugin name will be returned to the caller:

sub _load {
    my ($self, $plugin) = @_;
 
    if ($plugin =~ /(.*)\W(\w+)\.pm/){
        unshift @INC, $1;
        $plugin = $2;
    }
    elsif ($plugin =~ /^(\w+)\.pm$/){
        unshift @INC, '.';
        $plugin = $1;
    }
 
    my $loaded = eval { load $plugin; 1; };
 
    if ($loaded) {
        return $plugin;
    }
}
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