LazyColumn.str.slice

slice

slice(
    start: Optional[int] = None, stop: Optional[int] = None
) -> LazyColumn

Slices substrings from each string in the column.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
start	int	The start position for the slice. If None, defaults to 0.	None
stop	int	The end position for the slice. If None, slices to the end of the string.	None

Returns:

Name	Type	Description
LazyColumn	LazyColumn	A new LazyColumn with sliced strings.

Examples:

print(df.head())
#    col1 my_string_column
# 0     1         "Hello"
# 1     2         "World"
# 2     3         "Test123"
# 3     4         None
# 4     5         "abc"

df["my_string_column"].str.slice(1, 3)
# ["el", "or", "es", None, "bc"]