How to use try/catch from the MATLAB engine API

I'm trying to design a generic function from the MATLAB C Engine API that allows executing statements in a try/catch, and returning a wrapped result (wrapped differently depending on if the result is an error or success).

Related: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/98043-how-can-i-capture-error-messages-when-working-with-matlab-engine-when-using-matlab-7-8-r2009a

As I understand it, engEvalString can only execute a single statement (mabye I'm wrong). If this is the case, since try/catch is inherrently multi-line in MATLAB, I'm not sure how to achieve the desired result.

Ultimately I'd like to have code that matches the following pseudo-code:

engEvalStringSafe(eng, statementString) =
tryStmt = """
try
  struct('success', statementString);
catch ex
  struct('failure', ex)
end"""

engEvalString(eng, tryStmt)