Awk consider double quoted string as one token and ignore space in between

Question

Data file - data.txt:

ABC \"I am ABC\" 35 DESC
DEF \"I am not ABC\" 42 DESC

cat data.txt | awk \'{print $2}\'

will re

Answer 1

Try this:

$ cat data.txt | awk -F\" '{print $2}'
I am ABC
I am not ABC