pyspark.sql.functions.ascii#

pyspark.sql.functions.ascii(col)[source]#

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

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or column name: target column to work on.

Returns

Column: numeric value.

Examples

>>> from pyspark.sql import functions as sf
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame(["Spark", "PySpark", "Pandas API"], "STRING")
>>> df.select("*", sf.ascii("value")).show()
+----------+------------+
|     value|ascii(value)|
+----------+------------+
|     Spark|          83|
|   PySpark|          80|
|Pandas API|          80|
+----------+------------+