Though this does not do exactly what you asked for I think it will do what you meant. That is change any quote that is preceded by something not that is not a comma (thus avoiding the first quoted thing on the string.), but then has to either be followed by something other than "the end of line or before the newline at the end or a comma".

use strict;
use warnings;

while ( <DATA> ) {
   s/([^,])"(?!,|$)/$1""/g;
   print $_;
}

__DATA__
"A","B"",""C","D","E"
""F",
,"G""
"HI"J"K"L","M"
1,2,3,"t"l"r",4,5,6

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-enlil

In reply to Re: Repairing bad CSV by Enlil
in thread Repairing bad CSV by iburrell

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