Andreas Maier created SPARK-22436: ------------------------------------- Summary: New function strip() to remove all whitespace from string Key: SPARK-22436 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-22436 Project: Spark Issue Type: Improvement Components: PySpark, Spark Core Affects Versions: 2.2.0 Reporter: Andreas Maier Priority: Minor
Since ticket SPARK-17299 the [trim() function|https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/pyspark.sql.html#pyspark.sql.functions.trim] will not remove any whitespace characters from beginning and end of a string but only spaces. This is correct in regard to the SQL standard, but it opens a gap in functionality. My suggestion is to add to the Spark API in analogy to pythons standard library the functions l/r/strip(), which should remove all whitespace characters from a string from beginning and/or end of a string respectively. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org