Need help with awk statement to break nth column in csv file into 3 separate columns

Hello Members,

I have a csv file in the format below. Need help with awk statement to break nth column into 3 separate columns and export the changes to new file.

input file --> file.csv
cat file.csv|less

"product/fruit/mango","location/asia/india","type/alphonso"

need output in following format ,the nth column to modify here is 2nd column
cat file.csv|less

"product/fruit/mango","location","asia","india","type/alphonso"

:confused:
any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance

awk-novice

how about below..

 
awk -F"," '{gsub("/","\",\"",$2);OFS=","}1' filename
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will keep in mind about code tags..

thanks

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this thing is working...

thanks a ton....