pyspark.pandas.Series.str.index

str.index(sub: str, start: int = 0, end: Optional[int] = None) → pyspark.pandas.series.Series

Return lowest indexes in each strings where the substring is fully contained between [start:end].

This is the same as str.find() except instead of returning -1, it raises a ValueError when the substring is not found. Equivalent to standard str.index().

Parameters
substr

Substring being searched.

startint

Left edge index.

endint

Right edge index.

Returns
Series of int

Series of lowest matching indexes.

Examples

>>> s = ps.Series(['apple', 'oranges', 'bananas'])
>>> s.str.index('a')
0    0
1    2
2    1
dtype: int64

The following expression throws an exception:

>>> s.str.index('a', start=2)