Problem 988. Convert a substructure reference string into a valid definition structure for subsref and subsasgn

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You have a reference to an element in a data structure, which you want to pass to a function. Not the value itself, but the reference. And you don't like to use evil eval constructions. 
Therefore, you convert the reference into a structure, like liked by Matlab's built-in subsref and subsasgn functions.For example, to reference the value a(12), you would have to convert '(12)' into<pre class="language-matlab">def = 
 type: '()'
 subs: {[12]}
</pre>And to reference a(12).field_b{1,3}{2}((3:4),:).c, you would need to convert '(12).field_b{1,3}{2}((3:4),:).c' into<pre class="language-matlab">def(1) = 
 type: '()'
 subs: {[12]}
</pre><pre class="language-matlab">def(2) = 
 type: '.'
 subs: {'field_b'}
</pre><pre class="language-matlab">def(3) = 
 type: '{}'
 subs: {[1] [3]}
</pre><pre class="language-matlab">def(4) = 
 type: '{}'
 subs: {2}
</pre><pre class="language-matlab">def(5) = 
 type: '()'
 subs: {[3 4] ':'}
</pre><pre class="language-matlab">def(6) = 
 type: '.'
 subs: {'c'}
</pre>The assignment is correct when any sub-structure reference that is accepted by subsref and subsasgn is correctly converted from a string to a valid structure.Note: Solutions wrapped in (f)eval(c), inline, str2func, regexprep (dynamic regular expressions), etc, are not appreciated.

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