initcap

Translate the first letter of each word to upper case in the sentence.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see initcap function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.initcap(col=<col>)

Parameters

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

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: string with all first letters are uppercase in each word.

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('ab cd',)], ['a'])
df.select("*", dbf.initcap("a")).show()