pyspark.sql.functions.initcap

pyspark.sql.functions.initcap(col)

Translate the first letter of each word to upper case in the sentence.

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or str

target column to work on.

Returns

Column

string with all first letters are uppercase in each word.

Examples

>>> spark.createDataFrame([('ab cd',)], ['a']).select(initcap("a").alias('v')).collect()
[Row(v='Ab Cd')]