pyspark.sql.functions.format_string¶
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pyspark.sql.functions.
format_string
(format: str, *cols: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column[source]¶ Formats the arguments in printf-style and returns the result as a string column.
New in version 1.5.0.
Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.
- Parameters
- Returns
Column
the column of formatted results.
Examples
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([(5, "hello")], ['a', 'b']) >>> df.select(format_string('%d %s', df.a, df.b).alias('v')).collect() [Row(v='5 hello')]