Bash: Parse CSV with quotes, commas and newlines

Question

Say I have the following csv file:

 id,message,time
 123,\"Sorry, This message
 has commas and newlines\",2016-03-28T20:26:39
 456,\"It makes the problem non         


        

Answer 1

another awk alternative using FS

$ awk -F'"' '!(NF%2){getline remainder;$0=$0 OFS remainder}
                NR>1{sub(/,/,"",$NF); print $NF}' file

2016-03-28T20:26:39
2016-03-28T20:26:41