featurebyte.ViewColumn.str.strip

strip(

to_strip: Optional[str]=None

) -> FrozenSeries

Description

Removes leading and trailing characters (whitespaces by default) from each string element.

Parameters

• to_strip: Optional[str]
  Characters to remove, whitespace is used by default.
  
  

Returns

• FrozenSeries
  A new Column or Feature object.
  
  

Examples

Remove leading and trailing "M" characters from the Title column:

>>> view = catalog.get_view("GROCERYCUSTOMER")
>>> view["TitleStrip"] = view["Title"].str.strip("M")
>>> view.preview(5).filter(regex="Title")
  Title TitleStrip
0   Ms.         s.
1   Ms.         s.
2   Mr.         r.
3  Mrs.        rs.
4   Mr.         r.