perlcritic complaints that the following code, some boilerplate DBI stuff that works perfectly fine, should croak instead of die: # Connect to database my $db_handle = DBI->connect( $url, $user...

I want to detect grammar errors in my perl code. I've found that perlcritic misses many of them, (eg a random else inserted before any if, so trying to compile with perl -cw looks like the only via...

Have a simple module package Rrr; use 5.014; use warnings; use namespace::sweep; use Moo; use Method::Signatures::Simple; BEGIN { our $VERSION = '0.0.1'; } has 'root' => ( is => 'rw', d...

While digging in some old source code I saw the following: my $module = $some{module}; eval "require $module"; die "Bad module\n$@" if $@; while I understand what the code does, it tries "requir...

If perlcritic says "having no returns in a sub is wrong", what is the alternative if they really aren't needed? I've developed two apparently bad habits: I explicitly assign variables to the '$...

I understand that it is best practice to use Modern::Perl rather than use strict and warnings. With default options, Perl::Critic v1.121 complains about code before strict, even when 'use Modern::P...

I'm new to Perl, and am currently tasked with tidying and maintaining a large and pretty messy Perl project. I'm using perl-critic to help me detect issues in the code (and also to teach me best pr...

Lately, I've decided to start using Perl::Critic more often on my code. After programming in Perl for close to 7 years now, I've been settled in with most of the Perl best practices for a long whil...

I want to supress output in child process and read only stderr. perlfaq8 advises to do following: # To capture a program's STDERR, but discard its STDOUT: use IPC::Open3; use File::Spec; use Symbo...

We have been using Perl::Critic here at work to enforce our code conventions. Recently we ran into issues with /tmp directory getting filled up due to the Temp::File::tempdir function. tempdir clea...

I'm trying to exclude checks of Perl Critic's RequireRcsKeywords in a single Perl script. I don't want to change my default policy in .perlcriticrc so I added a "no critic" line to the top of the s...

Follow code is not accepted by Critic, severity 4: return { 'debug' => $debug, 'identifier' => $identifier }; I get this error: # Perl::Critic found these violations in "filename.pl": #...

I have a script and I am trying to elimate bad practices using perlcritic. One line I have is as follows: open(my($FREESPCHK), $cmdline ) || &zdie($MSG_PASSTHRU,"Error checking free space of ...

I've been told it's possible to have Perl::Critic show the policy name that is offending in its output. But I can't recall what I have to do to turn this on. How can this be enabled in a perlcritic...

I'm looking for an equivalent of PerlCritic for PHP. PerlCritc is a static source code analyzer that qritiques code and warns about everything from unused variables, to unsafe ways to handle data t...

PPI and Perl::Critic allow programmers to detect certain things in the syntax of their Perl programs. Is there anything like it that will tokenize/parse C and give you a chance to write a script t...

I'm trying to enable PerlCritic support in Komodo. The official word from ActiveState, the makers of Komodo IDE 5.1 (Win 32) is: "To enable PerlCritic support, please install the 'Perl-Critic' an...

My department is currently settling on some general code best practices, which we would like to somewhat enforce, providing developers with Perl::Tidy and Perl::Critic configurations. Now we are h...

I ran Perl::Critic on one of my scripts, and got this message: Regular expression without "/x" flag at line 21, column 26. See page 236 of PBP. I looked up the policy information here, and I und...

I've started a conversion of a project to Moose and the first thing I noticed was that my critic/tidy tests go to hell. Moose, Tidy and Critic don't seem to like each other as much as they used to....

One I am aware of is Perl::Critic And my googling has resulted in no results on multiple attempts so far. :-( Does anyone have any recommendations here? Any resources to configure Perl::Critic a...