Your problem, I think, is that you're trying to do this all at once - at the time you ask for the self-referencing portion, it's not actually been stored in the hash yet. You need to break this up into smaller chunks, so that the values you want are defined by the time you ask for them: 
my %hash;

$hash{1}{ONE}  = "testdir";
$hash{1}{TWO}  = "tmpdir";

$hash{2}{LOCATIONA} = "$hash{1}{ONE}/$hash{1}{TWO}/my_file.txt";
$hash{2}{LOCATIONB} = "$hash{1}{TWO}/$hash{1}{ONE}/my_file.txt";

print "$hash{2}{LOCATIONA} = location a\n";
print "$hash{2}{LOCATIONB} = location b\n";

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as an example.

In reply to Re: Can a hash self reference? by coke
in thread Can a hash self reference? by tcf03

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