Pyspark replace strings in Spark dataframe column

Question

I\'d like to perform some basic stemming on a Spark Dataframe column by replacing substrings. What\'s the quickest way to do this?

In my current use case, I have a

Answer 1

For scala

import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.regexp_replace
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.col
data.withColumn("addr_new", regexp_replace(col("addr_line"), "\\*", ""))