Arrays elements and hash values can only be scalars, not hashes or arrays. When something is called an array of arrays or a two-dimensional array, this is short for array of references to arrays. This means they are assigned like:

$arr[0] = [ 1, 2, 3 ];
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To copy the referred to array, you'd do

@anotherarray = @{ $arr[1] };
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