snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_varchar¶
- snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_varchar(variant: ColumnOrName) Column [source]¶
Casts a VARIANT value to a string.
Example:
>>> from snowflake.snowpark.functions import as_varchar, to_variant >>> df = session.sql("select 'some string' as char") >>> df.char_v = to_variant(df.char) >>> df.select(df.char_v.as_("char")).collect() == df.select(df.char).collect() False >>> df.select(as_varchar(df.char_v).as_("char")).collect() == df.select(df.char).collect() True