my $confgiFile = '/path/to/configFile';

open ( CONFIG, ">$configFile" ) or die "FATAL :: failure configuring - $!\n\n";

print CONFIG $config; # $config is populated much earlier

close(CONFIG);

##</code><code>##

open ( OTHERCONFIG, ">/path/to/otherconfigFile" ) or die "FATAL :: failure configuring - $!\n\n";

print OTHERCONFIG $otherConfig;

close(OTHERCONFIG);