Can field separator in awk encompass multiple characters?

Question

Can I use a field separator consisting of multiple characters? Like I want to separate words which contain quotes and commas between them viz.

\"School\",\"College\"

Answer 1

yes, FS could be multi-characters. see the below test with your example:

kent$  echo '"School","College","City"'|awk -F'","|^"|"$' '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i)print $i}}'
School
College
City