I think the article already showed that with the example -F,

The problem is commas inside quoted strings, as in the example "Smith, Bob".

I believe the field-separator option on awk will break the quoted string at the interior comma.

You could just replace those commas within the quote with some other string or remove them if you wanted with some awk or sed. Here is a somewhat relevant example from stackoverflow:

awk -F'"' -v OFS='' '{ for (i=2; i<=NF; i+=2) gsub(",", "", $i) } 1' infile

1. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/48672/remove-comma-...

LOL - you guys actually read the articles?

I see you like to live dangerously.

AWK is my hammer and I will abuse it to every end