remove last few characters in PySpark dataframe column

Question

I am having a PySpark DataFrame. How can I chop off/remove last 5 characters from the column name below -

from pyspark.sql.functions import subs         


        

Answer 1

You can use expr function

>>> from pyspark.sql.functions import substring, length, col, expr
>>> df = df.withColumn("flower",expr("substring(name, 1, length(name)-5)"))
>>> df.show()
+--------------+----+---------+
|          name|year|   flower|
+--------------+----+---------+
|     rose_2012|2012|     rose|
|  jasmine_2013|2013|  jasmine|
|     lily_2014|2014|     lily|
| daffodil_2017|2017| daffodil|
|sunflower_2016|2016|sunflower|
+--------------+----+---------+