pyspark.sql.Column.contains¶

Column.contains(other: Union[Column, LiteralType, DecimalLiteral, DateTimeLiteral]) → Column¶

Contains the other element. Returns a boolean Column based on a string match.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

other: string in line. A value as a literal or a Column.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame(
...      [(2, "Alice"), (5, "Bob")], ["age", "name"])
>>> df.filter(df.name.contains('o')).collect()
[Row(age=5, name='Bob')]

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