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How to to capture the below time stamp using "Time_Prefix's Regex."?

super_saiyan
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I want to capture the below time stamp using "Time_Prefix's Regex."

20220207T111737.014+0800

There is no guarantee that version will always be in that format, so  can someone please help me with a generic Regex ? 

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Regex is pattern matching - a generic pattern is neither possible nor useful - for example, ".*" will match to any time stamp you have, but it will also match to everything else which isn't a time stamp. In order to be useful, you will need to identify all the formats you consider to be time stamps in your events, and determine a common pattern or patterns (as few as possible) which describes the time stamp.

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Regex is pattern matching - a generic pattern is neither possible nor useful - for example, ".*" will match to any time stamp you have, but it will also match to everything else which isn't a time stamp. In order to be useful, you will need to identify all the formats you consider to be time stamps in your events, and determine a common pattern or patterns (as few as possible) which describes the time stamp.

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