pyspark.sql.functions.soundex

pyspark.sql.functions.soundex(col: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column[source]

Returns the SoundEx encoding for a string

New in version 1.5.0.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([("Peters",),("Uhrbach",)], ['name'])
>>> df.select(soundex(df.name).alias("soundex")).collect()
[Row(soundex='P362'), Row(soundex='U612')]