Ok, here is one of the more obscure methods of doing that I think. One that I would have used long ago if I had know how to. You can store your code in files as anonymous subs. You might take a look at Perl POE for examples. http://poe.perl.org On the POE site there is an example job server you can pass code_refs to, which would work with this. Then you can load your code from where ever into a hash so you can use a dispatch table. Found this bit on some node on PM here recently. 
my %dispatch_table = ( some_name_one => \&do_something, some_name_two 
+=> \&do_something_else );

($dispatch_table{"$some_name"} || sub { print "no command found\n" })-
+>($my_args,@into_sub);

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Here is an example of a plugin loader I'm working on for a IRC Bot. 
# the code is loaded into $code from a DB in my case
# and it loops around the sub below to load all plugins.
# In your file you would have an anonymous sub routine
# like { my $times=shift; for (1...$times) { print "Hello, World!\n"; 
+} }

# check reference type
my $eval_code = sub {  $code  };
my $chk_ref=ref $eval_code;
if ($chk_ref !~ /CODE/) {
    print "[load_plugins] Error loading plugin $name: Not CODE!\n";
} else {
    # test code
    $eval_code = eval "sub { $code }";
}
if ($@) {
    chomp($@);
    print "[load_plugins] Error loading plugin $name: $@\n";
} else {
    # store code in a hash
    $code{$name} = (
        {    id => $id,
            name => $name,
            code => $eval_code,
        },
    );
    print "[load_plugins] Plugin $name loaded successfully.\n";
}

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In reply to Re^3: calling a perl file from a perl script by swares
in thread calling a perl file from a perl script by hodashirzad

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