Four things:

  1. The way to get the value you want is with ${$h{'word1'}[0]}.
  2. If you'd have employed use strict, you'd notice that %h isn't yet defined when you try to grab $h{'word1'}. The value that $h{'word2}[0] currently contains is a reference to undef.
  3. You could have confirmed all of this by using Data::Dumper with print Dumper(\%h);.
  4. Why are you assigning a reference to an arrayref?

Proper way to do this would be to do:

my %h = (
'word1'=>[2,3],
'word2'=>[undef,3],
'word3'=>[1,2]
);
$h{word2}[0] = $h{word1};
print "@{$h{word2}[0]}\n";
__END__

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In reply to Re: hash to text by antirice
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