pyspark.sql.functions.locate

pyspark.sql.functions.locate(substr, str, pos=1)

Locate the position of the first occurrence of substr in a string column, after position pos.

Note

The position is not zero based, but 1 based index. Returns 0 if substr could not be found in str.

Parameters

• substr – a string

• str – a Column of pyspark.sql.types.StringType

• pos – start position (zero based)

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('abcd',)], ['s',])
>>> df.select(locate('b', df.s, 1).alias('s')).collect()
[Row(s=2)]

New in version 1.5.

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