Perlcritic config - finding the names of the policies that generate an error?

Question

I'm trying to get started using Perlcritic, and I'm working on refining my own configuration, leaving out all the rules I don't agree with or don't think are appropriate for me.

I know that I can do this using a .perlcrirticrc file, and that I can use the exclude directive in that file to exclude the policies I don't agree with, but to do that, I need to find the name of the policy that is causing the error I want to suppress.

I can't find a list of the policies in the documentation on CPAN anywhere, and the error messages do not give the name of the policy that is generating, so I'm at a total loss as to how I am supposed to generate my exclude list.

If anyone could point me to a way of mapping errors to policies, or even just point me to a list of the policies in core I'd be most grateful!

Answer 1

The highly-unintuitive --verbose flag is what you want, according to How do I make Perl::Critic show the offending policy in its output?

gdarcy@greg-pc:~$ perlcritic --verbose 8 src/Some/Module.pm 
[TestingAndDebugging::RequireUseStrict] Code before strictures are enabled at line 19, column 1.  (Severity: 5)
[Variables::RequireLexicalLoopIterators] Loop iterator is not lexical at line 1899, column 4.  (Severity: 5)
[Variables::RequireLexicalLoopIterators] Loop iterator is not lexical at line 1911, column 4.  (Severity: 5)
[Variables::RequireLexicalLoopIterators] Loop iterator is not lexical at line 2487, column 4.  (Severity: 5)
[Variables::RequireLexicalLoopIterators] Loop iterator is not lexical at line 3902, column 2.  (Severity: 5)