featurebyte.ViewColumn.str.slice

slice(

start: Union[int, NoneType]=None,

stop: Union[int, NoneType]=None,

step: Union[int, NoneType]=None

) -> FrozenSeries

Description

Slices substring from each string element.

Parameters

• start: Union[int, NoneType]
  Starting position for slice operation.
  
  
• stop: Union[int, NoneType]
  Ending position for slice operation.
  
  
• step: Union[int, NoneType]
  Step size for slice operation (only size 1 is supported)
  
  

Returns

• FrozenSeries
  A new Column or Feature object.
  
  

Raises

• ValueError
  When the step size is neither None nor 1.
  
  

Examples

Slice the first 10 characters from the BrowserUserAgent column:

>>> view = catalog.get_view("GROCERYCUSTOMER")
>>> view["BrowserUserAgentSlice"] = view["BrowserUserAgent"].str.slice(0, 10)
>>> view.preview(5).filter(regex="BrowserUserAgent")
                                    BrowserUserAgent BrowserUserAgentSlice
0  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.3...            Mozilla/5.
1  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:6...            Mozilla/5.
2  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Appl...            Mozilla/5.
3  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4...            Mozilla/5.
4  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) Apple...            Mozilla/5.