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ascii

Computes the numeric value of the first character of the string column.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see ascii function.

Syntax

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.ascii(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

col

pyspark.sql.Column or str

target column to work on.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: numeric value.

Examples

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame(["Spark", "PySpark", "Pandas API"], "STRING")
df.select("*", dbf.ascii("value")).show()