translate

The characters in replace is corresponding to the characters in matching. Translation will happen whenever any character in the string is matching with the character in the matching.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see translate function.

Syntax

Python

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.translate(srcCol=<srcCol>, matching=<matching>, replace=<replace>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
srcCol	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Source column or strings
matching	str	matching characters.
replace	str	characters for replacement. If this is shorter than matching string then those chars that don't have replacement will be dropped.

Parameter	Type	Description
srcCol	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Source column or strings
matching	str	matching characters.
replace	str	characters for replacement. If this is shorter than matching string then those chars that don't have replacement will be dropped.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: replaced value.

Examples

Python

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('translate',)], ['a'])
df.select('*', dbf.translate('a', "rnlt", "123")).show()