snowflake.snowpark.functions.array_distinct¶
- snowflake.snowpark.functions.array_distinct(col: Union[Column, str])[source]¶
The function excludes any duplicate elements that are present in the input ARRAY. The function is not guaranteed to return the elements in the ARRAY in a specific order. The function is NULL safe, which means that it treats NULLs as known values when identifying duplicate elements.
- Parameters:
col – The array column
- Returns:
Returns a new ARRAY that contains only the distinct elements from the input ARRAY.
Example:
>>> from snowflake.snowpark.functions import array_construct,array_distinct,lit >>> df = session.createDataFrame([["1"]], ["A"]) >>> df = df.withColumn("array", array_construct(lit(1), lit(1), lit(1), lit(2), lit(3), lit(2), lit(2))) >>> df.withColumn("array_d", array_distinct("ARRAY")).show() ----------------------------- |"A" |"ARRAY" |"ARRAY_D" | ----------------------------- |1 |[ |[ | | | 1, | 1, | | | 1, | 2, | | | 1, | 3 | | | 2, |] | | | 3, | | | | 2, | | | | 2 | | | |] | | -----------------------------