pyspark.sql.functions.ltrim

pyspark.sql.functions.ltrim(col)

Trim the spaces from left end for the specified string value.

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or str

target column to work on.

Returns

Column

left trimmed values.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame(["   Spark", "Spark  ", " Spark"], "STRING")
>>> df.select(ltrim("value").alias("r")).withColumn("length", length("r")).show()
+-------+------+
|      r|length|
+-------+------+
|  Spark|     5|
|Spark  |     7|
|  Spark|     5|
+-------+------+