Textscan: How to skip a delimiter present within single quotes

During testscan I am using semicolin(;) as delimiter but I want to skip this delimiter if it is present within single quotes.

How can I do it?

Example,

string1 = string2 ;  xyz.data = 'string3(1 = string4; 0 = string5)' ; sring6;

Expected output: Semicolon inside value to need to be skipped

value1 =>  string1 = string2
value2 =>  xyz.data = 'string3(1 = string4; 0 = string5)'
value3 =>  sring6

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

>> str = fileread('test.txt')
str =
string1 = string2 ;  xyz.data = 'string3(1 = string4; 0 = string5)' ; sring6;
>> out = textscan(strrep(str,'''','"'),'%q%q%q','delimiter',';');
>> out{:}
ans = 
    'string1 = string2 '
ans = 
    'xyz.data = "string3(1 = string4; 0 = string5) '
ans = 
    'sring6'

[Farook Sadarudeen]

Thanks for your answer. Number of substring is dynamic in my case. I have mentioned 3 in my case but it can vary in each line of my file.

[Stephen23]

"I have mentioned 3 in my case but it can vary in each line of my file"

textscan might not be the best tool for this. Please upload a sample file by clicking the paperclip button.