char_length

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.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see char_length function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.char_length(str=<str>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
str	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Input column or strings

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
spark.range(1).select(dbf.char_length(dbf.lit("SparkSQL"))).show()

+---------------------+
|char_length(SparkSQL)|
+---------------------+
|                    8|
+---------------------+