length

The length of character data includes the trailing spaces. The length of binary data includes binary zeros.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see length function.

Syntax

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.length(col=<col>)

Parameter	Type	Description
`col`	`pyspark.sql.Column` or `str`	target column to work on.

pyspark.sql.Column: length of the value.

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
spark.createDataFrame([('ABC ',)], ['a']).select('*', dbf.length('a')).show()