snowflake.snowpark.functions.to_decimal¶

snowflake.snowpark.functions.to_decimal(e: Union[Column, str], precision: int, scale: int) → Column[source]¶

Converts an input expression to a decimal.

Example::

>>> df = session.create_dataframe(['12', '11.3', '-90.12345'], schema=['a'])
>>> df.select(to_decimal(col('a'), 38, 0).as_('ans')).collect()
[Row(ANS=12), Row(ANS=11), Row(ANS=-90)]

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>>> df.select(to_decimal(col('a'), 38, 2).as_('ans')).collect()
[Row(ANS=Decimal('12.00')), Row(ANS=Decimal('11.30')), Row(ANS=Decimal('-90.12'))]

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