You can file a feature request at https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SPARK/
As a workaround you can create a user defined function like so: https://databricks-prod-cloudfront.cloud.databricks.com/public/4027ec902e239c93eaaa8714f173bcfc/1526931011080774/2518747644544276/6320440561800420/latest.html Richard L. Garris Director of Field Engineering Databricks, Inc. rich...@databricks.com Mobile: 650.200.0840 databricks.com <http://databricks.com/> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:21 AM Nuno Silva <nuno.mgomes.si...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if I'm delivering my request through the right channel: would it > be possible for sql.DataFrame.replace to accept regular expressions, like > in pandas.DataFrame.replace > <https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.replace.html> > ? > > Thank you, > Nuno >