pyspark.sql.Column.startswith

Column.startswith(other)

String starts with. Returns a boolean Column based on a string match.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

otherColumn or str

string at start of line (do not use a regex ^)

Examples

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