pyspark.sql.functions.rpad

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

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

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or str

target column to work on.

lenint

length of the final string.

padstr

chars to append.

Returns

Column

right padded result.

Examples

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

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