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from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from pyspark.sql.functions import regexp_replace

app_name = "PySpark regex_replace Example"
master = "local"

spark = SparkSession.builder \
    .appName(app_name) \
    .master(master) \
    .getOrCreate()

spark.sparkContext.setLogLevel("WARN")

data = [[1, 'ABCDEDF!@#$%%^123456qwerty'],
        [2, 'ABCDE!!!']
        ]

df = spark.createDataFrame(data, ['id', 'str'])

df.show(truncate=False)

df = df.select("id", regexp_replace("str", "[^0-9a-zA-Z_\-]+", ""
                                    ).alias('replaced_str'))

df.show()

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