[sesmar]

You want to do it like this:

if (($text=~/hail/i)&&(${$name}==2)){

At least in regular perl that will work.

This is what I used to test it:

$var1 = "var2";
$var2 = "Testing";

print "$var1 \n";
print "${$var1} \n";
print "$var2 \n";