Hi, why not just use regexp_replace() unless there is an attachment to the function replace ofcourse, which is quite understandable :)
Regards, Gourav On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:39 PM Richard Garris <rlgar...@databricks.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
