Dot notation from string

Hi,
Is there any way to convert string with dots do a dot notation?
Let S be a structure, I want to get
I store a "path" to field to a string
path = ['field1.field2.field3'];
I want to get to a specified field3, instead of
S.field1.field2.field3
I want to call it like this, without separating it by dots.
S.(path)
If I put it like this, it treats the whole string like one name of field.
The reason is that I use a loop which creates the string "path", depending on existance of fields in each "depth" - the substructures are inconsistent. I want the "depth" (number of dots) to be variable.
THX

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Have you tried eval instead?
eval(['S.' path]);
Thanks a lot!
@Peng Li: due to the disadvantages of eval that approach is not recommended.

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DON'T use eval. There's no need to use it in this case anyway. split the text representation of the nested fields into pieces then pass those pieces into getfield as a comma-separated list.
S.field1.field2.field3 = 42;
P = 'field1.field2.field3';
pathPieces = split(P, '.');
theAnswer = getfield(S, pathPieces{:})
Things get trickier if you have a more complicated indexing expression, but take a look at the help and documentation for getfield for how to handle such situations.

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