Keep in mind I'm whipping this up on a PC that doesn't even have perl installed, never mind SS:WE. But I think this'll work.

If it looks like the code I posted for you yesterday, that's what I started from, since I don't have SS:WE's perldoc handy here.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

# don't need this here, but might in real script to get cell addresses
#use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Utility;

my $workbook=Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("test-counts.xls");
my $files_worksheet=$workbook->addworksheet("Files");

$files_worksheet->write(0,0,"Filename");
$files_worksheet->write(0,1,"ErrorType");

my %errorCodes;
my %errorCodesByFile;
my ($row, $col);

# let's assume there's an input file, with data like
# one.cxx 588
# one.cxx 588
# ...
open(INFILE,"<errorList") or die "Can't open errorList, error $!";
$row=1;
while(<INFILE>) {
    my ($file, $err)=split;
    $files_worksheet->write($row,0,$file);
    $files_worksheet->write($row,1,$err);

    # we need the list of ALL the errors, to get column headings
    $errorCodes{$err}++;

    # we need to COUNT how often each error occurs in each file
    $errorCodesByFile{$file}->{$err}++;

    ++$row;
}
close(INFILE);

my $summ_worksheet=$workbook->addworksheet("Summary");

$summ_worksheet->write(0,0,"fileName");
$summ_worksheet->write(0,1,"Error");

my @sortedCodes = sort keys %errorCodes;

$col=2;
foreach my $errCode(@sortedCodes) {
        $summ_worksheet->write(0,$col++,$errCode);
}
    

$row=1;
foreach my $filename(sort keys %errorCodesByFile) {
    $summ_worksheet->write($row,0,$fileName);

    $col=2;
    
    foreach my $errCode(@sortedCodes) {
                # set to blank if value 0 or not defined
        my $count=$errorCodesByFile{$file}->{$errCode} || '';
        $summ_worksheet->write($row,$col++,$count);
    }

        ++$row;
}
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Hope this helps...
--
Mike

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