How do I read strings with textscan?

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kygreen
kygreen 2018-2-21
评论： kygreen 2018-2-21
I have the following format I'm trying to read from a file with textscan:
10000 'name1 name2 name3 ..' 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
20000 'name4 name5 ..' 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
30000 'name6 name7 name8 name9 ..' 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
repeat format for 150 lines
The issue is I want everything between single quotes to be read/stored as one string. The problem is that there are whitespaces and also sometimes there are 3 names, sometimes there are 2, sometimes 4.
I've tried:
formatSpec = '%d %s %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f'
C = textscan(fid,formatSpec,150)
I know my formatSpec is too basic for strings with multiple whitespaces and words. Can you help with how I should read in this format? I basically want C to be an 150x11 cell matrix where column 2 is the entire string from single quote to single quote.
Thanks!

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2018-2-21
The trick to this is to use a format item
''%[^'']''
for each place you want one of those quoted strings.
But there is a different approach: use fileread to read the entire file into a string, and then replace all ' in the string with " and then textscan the string with a %q format element. (That is, you can pass a string as the first parameter to textscan instead of a file identifier)
C.J. Harris
C.J. Harris 2018-2-21
Have you tried specifying the delimiter?
formatSpec = '%d %s %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f';
C = textscan(fid,formatSpec,150, 'Delimiter', '''');
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kygreen
kygreen 2018-2-21
Thanks! This was very helpful. I didn't get the delimiter syntax correct, and I also had the wrong N value so my results were awry. It is good now!

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