pyspark.sql.functions.char_length

pyspark.sql.functions.char_length(str)

Returns the character length of string data or number of bytes of binary data. The length of string data includes the trailing spaces. The length of binary data includes binary zeros.

Added in version 3.5.0.

Parameters:

strColumn or str

Input column or strings. A column that evaluates to a string or binary.

See also

pyspark.sql.functions.character_length()

pyspark.sql.functions.length()

Examples

>>> import pyspark.sql.functions as sf
>>> spark.range(1).select(sf.char_length(sf.lit("SparkSQL"))).show()
+---------------------+
|char_length(SparkSQL)|
+---------------------+
|                    8|
+---------------------+