in reply to Re^4: word with some number in between
in thread word with some number in between

Precisely. eg.

$ perl -e 'print "Matched.\n" if "foo8baz" =~ /[0-9]/;'
Matched.
$ perl -e 'print "Matched.\n" if "foobaz" =~ /[0-9]/;'

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