Hi wewantmoore, and welcome.
If i understand your question you need something like:

perl -e "if ($ARGV[0] =~ /Variable\s(\d+)$/ and $1 > 0.9 ){print qq(Gr
+eater than 0.9\n)}" "Variable 1"


Greater than 0.9
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In fact inside the if clause you have something like: if the implicit $_ match this (which return value is scalar id est 1 ) is bigger than 0.9.

I think is not what you intended.
Regexes return many things in special variables like $1 i used. It is the content of the 1st set of parens inside a regex.
You'll probably also need some anchor after your capturing parens because you are matching .* i used $ to specify the end of the string.
HtH
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