question Re: What is the significance of $ in this filter statement val result = file1.select(&quot;Name&quot;,&quot;Age&quot;).filter($&quot;Age&quot;&gt;30).show() in Archives of Support Questions (Read Only) https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-is-the-significance-of-in-this-filter-statement-val/m-p/222003#M82245 <P>it's defining a columnname in the filter condition. So in your case it means nothing else then column with the name Age.</P> Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:04:26 GMT arald 2018-08-16T17:04:26Z What is the significance of $ in this filter statement val result = file1.select("Name","Age").filter($"Age">30).show() https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-is-the-significance-of-in-this-filter-statement-val/m-p/222002#M82244 Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:52:50 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-is-the-significance-of-in-this-filter-statement-val/m-p/222002#M82244 sganeshkumar 2018-08-16T13:52:50Z Re: What is the significance of $ in this filter statement val result = file1.select("Name","Age").filter($"Age">30).show() https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-is-the-significance-of-in-this-filter-statement-val/m-p/222003#M82245 <P>it's defining a columnname in the filter condition. So in your case it means nothing else then column with the name Age.</P> Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:04:26 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-is-the-significance-of-in-this-filter-statement-val/m-p/222003#M82245 arald 2018-08-16T17:04:26Z