pyspark.pandas.Series.str.slice¶
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str.slice(start: Optional[int] = None, stop: Optional[int] = None, step: Optional[int] = None) → ps.Series¶ Slice substrings from each element in the Series.
- Parameters
- startint, optional
Start position for slice operation.
- stopint, optional
Stop position for slice operation.
- stepint, optional
Step size for slice operation.
- Returns
- Series of object
Series from sliced substrings from original string objects.
Examples
>>> s = ps.Series(["koala", "fox", "chameleon"]) >>> s 0 koala 1 fox 2 chameleon dtype: object
>>> s.str.slice(start=1) 0 oala 1 ox 2 hameleon dtype: object
>>> s.str.slice(stop=2) 0 ko 1 fo 2 ch dtype: object
>>> s.str.slice(step=2) 0 kaa 1 fx 2 caeen dtype: object
>>> s.str.slice(start=0, stop=5, step=3) 0 kl 1 f 2 cm dtype: object