$ perlcritic --force -1 1.pl Code is not tidy at line 1, column 1. See page 33 of PBP. (Severity: 1) No package-scoped "$VERSION" variable found at line 1, column 1. See page 404 of PBP. (Severity: 2) Regular expression without "/s" flag at line 6, column 38. See pages 240,241 of PBP. (Severity: 2)