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snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_number

snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_number(variant: Union[Column, str], precision: Optional[int] = None, scale: Optional[int] = None) → Column[source] (https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowpark-python/blob/v1.16.0/src/snowflake/snowpark/functions.py#L6087-L6104)

Casts a VARIANT value to a fixed-point decimal (does not match floating-point values).

Example::
>>> df = session.sql("select 1.2345::variant as a")
>>> df.select(as_number("a", 4, 1).alias("result")).show()
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|"RESULT"  |
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|1.2       |
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