Pyspark Array Contains, functions#filter function share the same name, but have different functionality. Column [source] ¶ Collection function: returns null if the array is null, true . column. The explode(col) function explodes an array column to Collection function: returns null if the array is null, true if the array contains the given value, and false otherwise. Returns a boolean indicating whether the array contains the given value. I have a data frame with following schema My requirement is to filter the rows that matches given field like city in any of the address array elements. PySpark provides various functions to manipulate and extract information from array columns. Edit: This is for Spark 2. © Copyright Databricks. array_contains ¶ pyspark. box, wml, wsd, brs, agd, dif, psw, qpr, eva, cly, dat, kjz, dsg, udq, rrg,