Can anyone tell me how i can obtain the first element?

To answer the question exactly as asked you can shift off the first element:

my @array = qw/one two three/;
my $x = shift @array;
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That will remove the first element from the array leaving 'two','three'. If you don't want to alter the list you can directly access the first element:

my @array = qw/one two three/;
my $x = $array[0];
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