pyspark.sql.functions.slice

pyspark.sql.functions.slice(x, start, length)

Collection function: returns an array containing all the elements in x from index start (array indices start at 1, or from the end if start is negative) with the specified length.

New in version 2.4.0.

Parameters:

xColumn or str

the array to be sliced

startColumn or int

the starting index

lengthColumn or int

the length of the slice

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([([1, 2, 3],), ([4, 5],)], ['x'])
>>> df.select(slice(df.x, 2, 2).alias("sliced")).collect()
[Row(sliced=[2, 3]), Row(sliced=[5])]

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