pyspark.sql.Column.like#
- Column.like(other)[source]#
- SQL like expression. Returns a boolean - Columnbased on a SQL LIKE match.- Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect. - Parameters
- otherstr
- a SQL LIKE pattern 
 
- Returns
- Column
- Column of booleans showing whether each element in the Column is matched by SQL LIKE pattern. 
 
 - See also - Examples - >>> df = spark.createDataFrame( ... [(2, "Alice"), (5, "Bob")], ["age", "name"]) >>> df.filter(df.name.like('Al%')).collect() [Row(age=2, name='Alice')]