Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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Simple quote-comma CSV parsing in Awk

gawk -vFPAT='[^,]*|"[^"]*"' '{print $1,$2,$3}'

Requires GNU awk 4+, but eliminates the need for a specialized CSV library to handle quoted fields that contain delimiters.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Splitting-By-Content.html

Credit for pointing me to this approach goes to: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17287068/75386