Should I use AWK or SED to remove commas between quotation marks from a CSV file? (BASH)

Question

I have a bunch of daily printer logs in CSV format and I\'m writing a script to keep track of how much paper is being used and save the info to a database, but I\'v

Answer 1

As I wrote in another answer:

Rather than interfere with what is evidently source data, i.e. the stuff inside the quotes, you might consider replacing the field-separator commas (with say |) instead:

s/,([^,"]*|"[^"]*")(?=(,|$))/|$1/g

And then splitting on | (assuming none of your data has | in it).

Is it possible to write a regular expression that matches a particular pattern and then does a replace with a part of the pattern