snowflake.snowpark.functions.lpad¶
- snowflake.snowpark.functions.lpad(e: Union[Column, str], len: Union[Column, int], pad: Union[Column, str]) Column[source]¶
Left-pads a string with characters from another string, or left-pads a binary value with bytes from another binary value.
Example:
>>> from snowflake.snowpark.functions import lit >>> df = session.create_dataframe([["a"], ["b"], ["c"]], schema=["a"]) >>> df.select(lpad(col("a"), 3, lit("k")).alias("result")).show() ------------ |"RESULT" | ------------ |kka | |kkb | |kkc | ------------