"--verbose N | FORMAT"
        Sets the verbosity level or format for reporting violations. If given
        a number ("N"), "perlcritic" reports violations using one of the
        predefined formats described below. If given a string ("FORMAT"), it
        is interpreted to be an actual format specification. If the
        "--verbose" option is not specified, it defaults to either 4 or 5,
        depending on whether multiple files were given as arguments to
        "perlcritic". You can set the default value for this option in your
        .perlcriticrc file.

            Verbosity     Format Specification
            -----------   -------------------------------------------------------
             1            "%f:%l:%c:%m\n",
             2            "%f: (%l:%c) %m\n",
             3            "%m at %f line %l\n",
             4            "%m at line %l, column %c.  %e.  (Severity: %s)\n",
             5            "%f: %m at line %l, column %c.  %e.  (Severity: %s)\n",
             6            "%m at line %l, near '%r'.  (Severity: %s)\n",
             7            "%f: %m at line %l near '%r'.  (Severity: %s)\n",
             8            "[%p] %m at line %l, column %c.  (Severity: %s)\n",
             9            "[%p] %m at line %l, near '%r'.  (Severity: %s)\n",
            10            "%m at line %l, column %c.\n  %p (Severity: %s)\n%d\n",
            11            "%m at line %l, near '%r'.\n  %p (Severity: %s)\n%d\n"

        Formats are a combination of literal and escape characters similar to
        the way "sprintf" works. See String::Format for a full explanation of
        the formatting capabilities. Valid escape characters are:

            Escape    Meaning
            -------   ------------------------------------------------------------
            %c        Column number where the violation occurred
            %d        Full diagnostic discussion of the violation
            %e        Explanation of violation or page numbers in PBP
            %F        Just the name of the file where the violation occurred.
            %f        Path to the file where the violation occurred.
            %l        Line number where the violation occurred
            %m        Brief description of the violation
            %P        Full name of the Policy module that created the violation
            %p        Name of the Policy without the Perl::Critic::Policy:: prefix
            %r        The string of source code that caused the violation
            %C        The class of the PPI::Element that caused the violation
            %s        The severity level of the violation

        The purpose of these formats is to provide some compatibility with
        text editors that have an interface for parsing certain kinds of
        input. See "EDITOR INTEGRATION" for more information about that.