snowflake.snowpark.functions.substring¶

snowflake.snowpark.functions.substring(str: Union[Column, str], pos: Union[Column, int], len: Optional[Union[Column, int]] = None) → Column[source] (https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowpark-python/blob/v1.30.0/snowpark-python/src/snowflake/snowpark/functions.py#L3327-L3367)¶

Returns the portion of the string or binary value str, starting from the character/byte specified by pos, with limited length. The length should be greater than or equal to zero. If the length is a negative number, the function returns an empty string.

Note

For pos, 1 is the first character of the string in Snowflake database.

substr() is an alias of substring().

Example 1::

>>> df = session.create_dataframe(
...     ["abc", "def"],
...     schema=["S"],
... )
>>> df.select(substring(col("S"), 1, 1)).collect()
[Row(SUBSTRING("S", 1, 1)='a'), Row(SUBSTRING("S", 1, 1)='d')]

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Example 2::

>>> df = session.create_dataframe(
...     ["abc", "def"],
...     schema=["S"],
... )
>>> df.select(substring(col("S"), 2)).collect()
[Row(SUBSTRING("S", 2)='bc'), Row(SUBSTRING("S", 2)='ef')]

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