parse a csv file that contains commans in the fields with awk

Question

i have to use awk to print out 4 different columns in a csv file. The problem is the strings are in a $x,xxx.xx format. When I run the regular awk command.

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Answer 1

The data file:

$ cat data.txt
"$307.00","$132.34","$30.23"

The AWK script:

$ cat csv.awk
BEGIN { RS = "," }
{ gsub("\"", "", $1);
  print $1 }

The execution:

$ awk -f csv.awk data.txt
$307.00
$132.34
$30.23