Is it possible to use a single pattern match to match a single Perl statement (delimited with a ;)?

Although looks rather trivial, I struggled to come up with anything workable for these cases: 
myfunc $x eq "foo;text";foobar';';$x++;

# matching first Perl statement..
# should return:
#  myfunc $x eq "foo;text";
#
# not:
#  myfunc $x eq "foo;";foobar';
# 
# or something else...

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My first (shameful) attempt was this pattern: m/([`'"])*[^\1]*;[^\1]*\1;/. However, it didn't work (for some obvious reasons ;).

I've also looked at Text::Balanced. But couldn't figure which of its methods I had to use in order to accomplish what I wanted. Basically, the idea is to find first statement delimited by a ';' while also avoiding any occurance of ';' inside a pair of quotes.

Thanks in advance ;-)

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In reply to Matching first Perl statement. by vladb

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