Can you post a short example of source code (and the corresponding Perl::Critic configuration and invocation) to demonstrate the problem?

I don't use Perl::Critic, but I imagine that it would understand what heredocs are...

(my $lintags_inssql = <<~'SQLSTR') =~s/(?:^\t*|\n)/ /gmx;
    INSERT INTO linktags (filesrc, metadir, tagname, tagvalue, symlink
+, filesref, dirtype,status) 
    SELECT  a.filesrc, a.metadir, tagname, tagvalue,
## This is line 4486 ##        metadir||'/'||tagname||$1||tagvalue||$1
+||filenameparts[1]||'_'||array_to_string(linka[linkano-2:linkano-1]
## line 4486 ##
    ,'_')||filenameparts[2] symlink
        ,filesref,dirtype,'new'
    FROM
        (SELECT DISTINCT  l.filesrc, c.metadir||'/0_meta' metadir, tag
+name, tagvalue
            ,string_to_array(filesrc,$1)linka,
         
            cardinality(string_to_array(filesrc,$1)) linkano,
            regexp_matches(filesrc,'.*/(.*)(\..*)') filenameparts,
            filesref, dirtype
            FROM public.linktags l
            JOIN chkmeta c ON l.filesrc  LIKE c.metadir||'%' WHERE (st
+atus='new')
        ) a

     ON CONFLICT(symlink) DO UPDATE SET dirtype=EXCLUDED.dirtype
    SQLSTR
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perlcritic error

Hard tabs used at line 4486, column 64. See page 20 of PBP. (Severity: 3)
Literal line breaks in a string at line 4486, column 64. See pages 60,61 of PBP.
(Severity: 3)

perlcritic cmd

sudo perlcritic --force -1 /usr/bin/use_videotagspg|grep -i -B2 'hard tabs'

.perlcriticrc

[TestingAndDebugging::ProhibitNoStrict]
allow = refs
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I downloaded the code, removed the ## comments, included the standard boilerplate for scripts (shebang, strictures, warnings) and run freshly installed perlcritic on it:

$ perlcritic --force -1 1.pl
Code is not tidy at line 1, column 1.  See page 33 of PBP.  (Severity:
+ 1)
No package-scoped "$VERSION" variable found at line 1, column 1.  See 
+page 404 of PBP.  (Severity: 2)
Regular expression without "/s" flag at line 6, column 38.  See pages 
+240,241 of PBP.  (Severity: 2)
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map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

Like choroba, I also can't reproduce those two policy warnings here either, with versions 1.134 and the latest 1.138. What version of Perl::Critic do you have installed? (perlcritic --version) And do you perhaps have any other Perl::Critic::* add-ons installed?

I agree with Corion that you'll need to show the code that produces these issues - I haven't been able to reproduce ProhibitMismatchedOperators at all yet, I've only been able to reproduce ProhibitHardTabs inside q{}'s, not heredocs, and ProhibitImplicitNewlines explicitly states to use heredocs instead of multiline quoted strings.

In other words, this produces ProhibitHardTabs and ProhibitImplicitNewlines policy warnings:

my $foo = q{
    if ($a == 'bar') {    }
    SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE quz==3;
};
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while this doesn't:

my $foo = <<'END';
    if ($a == 'bar') {    }
    SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE quz==3;
END
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Are you sure you're not using multi-line quoted strings instead of heredocs...?

Just checked and there was a fix with indented heredocs post 1.32 (1.34)

This seems to have solved the issue