pyspark.sql.functions.lpad

pyspark.sql.functions.lpad(col: ColumnOrName, len: int, pad: str) → pyspark.sql.column.Column

Left-pad the string column to width len with pad.

New in version 1.5.0.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('abcd',)], ['s',])
>>> df.select(lpad(df.s, 6, '#').alias('s')).collect()
[Row(s='##abcd')]

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