Parse a csv using awk and ignoring commas inside a field

Question

I have a csv file where each row defines a room in a given building. Along with room, each row has a floor field. What I want to extract is all floors in all buildings. <

Answer 1

My workaround is to strip commas from the csv using:

decommaize () {
  cat $1 | sed 's/"[^"]*"/"((&))"/g' | sed 's/\(\"((\"\)\([^",]*\)\(,\)\([^",]*\)\(\"))\"\)/"\2\4"/g' | sed 's/"(("/"/g' | sed 's/"))"/"/g' > $2
}

That is, first substitute opening quotes with "((" and closing quotes with "))", then substitute "(("whatever,whatever"))" with "whateverwhatever", then change all remaining instances of "((" and "))" back to ".