pyspark.sql.functions.
trim
Trim the spaces from both ends for the specified string column.
New in version 1.5.0.
Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.
Column
target column to work on.
trimmed values from both sides.
Examples
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([" Spark", "Spark ", " Spark"], "STRING") >>> df.select(trim("value").alias("r")).withColumn("length", length("r")).show() +-----+------+ | r|length| +-----+------+ |Spark| 5| |Spark| 5| |Spark| 5| +-----+------+