Ignoring embeded spaces with AWK

Question

I\'m looking for a simple way to print a specific field with awk while allowing for embedded spaces in the field.

Sample: Field1 Field2 \"Field Three\" Field

Answer 1

Based on this, in gawk maybe you can use something like

awk 'BEGIN{FPAT = "([^ ]+)|(\"[^\"]+\")"}{print $3}' input.txt

Output:

"Field Three"

It may need more work to get suited to your needs completely.

I think it needs gawk 4+, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2011-06/msg00013.html