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Solution for replacement of 4th column with 3rd column in a file using awk/sed preserving delimters

input

Code:

"A","B","C,D","E","F"
"S","T","U,V","W","X"
"AA","BB","CC,DD","EEEE","FFF"

required output:

Code:

"A","B","C,D","C,D","F"
"S", T","U,V","U,V","X"
"AA","BB","CC,DD","CC,DD","FFF"

tried using awk but double quotes not preserving for every field. any help to solve this is much appreciated.

Code:

cat input | awk -v FS="\",\"" '{ $4=$3;print }'
"A B C,D C,D F"
"S T U,V U,V X"
"AA BB CC,DD CC,DD FFF"

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