ascii

Computes the numeric value of the first character of the string column.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see ascii function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.ascii(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	target column to work on.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: numeric value.

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame(["Spark", "PySpark", "Pandas API"], "STRING")
df.select("*", dbf.ascii("value")).show()