foreach my $word (sort keys %cnter){
      print OUT "$word : ";
      my @t = ();
      my $count = 0;
      foreach my $title (@order) {
            push @t, (exists $cnter{$word}{$title}) ?  $cnter{$word}{$title} : 0;
            my $count += $t[-1] # this would add the number just pushed to end of array
      }
      print OUT join("\t", @t),"\n";
      print OUT "$count"; #prints total then goes to next title
} 

%section_hash = ($title => $t[-1])

my @section_array = ();
push @section_array, @t; 

use strict;
use warnings;
open(IN, "readme.txt") or die "ERROR: $!";
open(OUT, ">seeme.txt") or die "ERROR: $!";
my (%cnter, $title, @order, %index);
 
while(<IN>) {
      next if (/^\s*$/);
      chomp;
      my @line = split(/\s+/);
      if($line[0] =~ /^=/) {
            $line[0] =~ tr/=//d; # remove all the "=" from the section title
            $title = "@line";
            push @order, $title;
      }
      else {
            tr/,.?!//d for @line; #remove some punctuation
            tr/A-Z/a-z/ for @line; #convert all text to lower case so 'Word' and 'word' are the same
 
            # a local hash to store { section => its index in the array
 
            @index{@order} = (0..$#order);
 
            #$cnter{$_}{$title}++ for @line; 
            ${$cnter{$_}}[$index{$title}]++ for @line;
      }
}
 
print OUT join("\t",@order),"\n";
foreach my $word (sort keys %cnter){
      print OUT "$word :";
      my @t = ();
      foreach my $title (@order) {
            #push @t, (exists $cnter{$word}{$title}) ?  $cnter{$word}{$title} : 0;
            push @t, (defined ${$cnter{$word}}[$index{$title}]) ? ${$cnter{$word}}[$index{$title}] : 0;
      }
      print OUT join("\t", @t),"\n";
}
close(IN);
close(OUT);

for (@line) {
    $cnter{$_}{$title}++;
}
 

%cntr = (
word1 => {
    title1 => count,
    title2 => count,
 },
word2 => {
    title1 => count,
    title2 => count,
 } 
etc etc