Sort and summarize perlcritic output

[toolic]

This is how I run perlcritic. It sorts the output by severity, and it makes it easy to access the POD for a given policy (via perldoc with a simple copy'n'paste in your shell). It also runs lint checking using B::Lint.

=head1 Name

B<pcsort> - Sort perlcritic 'brutal' output by severity

=head1 Description

    Input is a Perl script or module.
    Prints to STDOUT.

    Example: pcsort foo.pl

    Also runs perl -MO=Lint.

    See also ~/.perlcriticrc file

=cut

use warnings FATAL => 'all';
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;

my $file = shift;
my %hoa;
my %pols;

# These command line settings override same settings
# in ~/.perlcriticrc file
my @lines = qx(perlcritic --brutal --verbose 9 $file);
for (@lines) {
    if (/ \[ ([\w:]+) \] .*? Severity : \s+ (\d) /x) {
        chomp;
        my $pol = $1;
        my $sev = $2;
        push @{ $hoa{$sev} }, $_;
        $pols{"perldoc Perl::Critic::Policy::$pol"}++;
    }
}

print Dumper(\%hoa);
print 'TOTAL = ', scalar @lines, "\n";
print "$_\n" for sort keys %pols;

my $lint = "perl -MO=Lint $file";
print "\n$lint\n";
print qx($lint 2>&1); # Make sure it all goes to STDOUT

[Anonymous Monk]

FYI, ActivePerl comes with a perlcritic-gui

[Tommy]

This is really nice. Thank you.