collate

Marks a given column with specified collation.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see collate expression.

Syntax

Python

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.collate(col=<col>, collation=<collation>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Target string column to work on.
collation	str	Target collation name.

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Target string column to work on.
collation	str	Target collation name.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: A new column of string type, where each value has the specified collation.