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  1. Spark
  2. SPARK-28783

Support plus + operator as concatenation for StringType columns in pyspark

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    • Wish
    • Status: Resolved
    • Trivial
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • 2.4.3
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    • PySpark
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      Right now if one try to use plus operator for two columns in pyspark like `F.col('a') + F.col('b')`, pyspark always try to treat it as arithmetic addition like `2+3=5`. If the columns are `StringType`, pyspark try to convert them to number then do the addition. However, in python and pandas world, the plus operation for string type means concatenation not arithmetic addition. So it will be great that pyspark also support the same logic that `F.col('str1') + F.col('str2') + F.col('str3')` yields `F.concat(F.col('str1'), F.col('str2'), F.col('str3'))`.

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            louis925 Louis Yang
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