Indeed it did. Thanks! Ron
From: Michael Armbrust [mailto:mich...@databricks.com] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 9:53 PM To: Daniel, Ronald (ELS-SDG) Cc: user@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: filtering a SchemaRDD If I use row[6] instead of row["text"] I get what I am looking for. However, finding the right numeric index could be a pain. Can I access the fields in a Row of a SchemaRDD by name, so that I can map, filter, etc. without a trial and error process of finding the right int for the fieldname? row.text should work. More examples here: http://spark.apache.org/docs/1.1.0/sql-programming-guide.html#tab_python_2 Michael