character_length

Returns the character length of string data or number of bytes of binary data.

• The length of string data includes the trailing spaces.
• The length of binary data includes binary zeros.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see character_length function.

Syntax

Python

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.character_length(str=<str>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
str	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Input column or strings.

Parameter	Type	Description
str	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Input column or strings.

Examples

Python

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
spark.range(1).select(dbf.character_length(dbf.lit("SparkSQL"))).show()

Output

+--------------------------+
|character_length(SparkSQL)|
+--------------------------+
|                         8|
+--------------------------+