ascii #

pyspark.sql.functions.ascii(col) #

version: since 1.5.0

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

Runnable Code:

from pyspark.sql import functions as F
# Set up dataframe
data = [{"b": "hi","a": "aa"},{"a": ""},{"b": "bob"}]
df = spark.createDataFrame(data).drop("b")
# Use function
df = (df
     .withColumn("ascii",
       F.ascii(F.col("a")))
     )
df.show()

Usage:

Simple function. Just gets the ascii code of the first letter.

returns: \_invoke_function_over_column("ascii", col)

PySpark manual

tags: ascii code, utf8, unicode

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draft: true def ascii(col): """ Computes the numeric value of the first character of the string column. """ return _invoke_function_over_column(“ascii”, col)

[docs]@since(1.5)