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+## Copyright (C) 2011 Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>
+## Copyright (c) 2011 Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{paths} = } getpath (@var{ids})
+## Returns paths in @var{ids}.
+##
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function paths = getpath(obj, varargin)
+
+ if !isempty(varargin)
+
+ ids = varargin;
+ if iscell (ids) && numel(ids) == 1 && iscell(ids{1}) % dealing with ids given as cell
+ ids = ids{1};
+
+ if !all ( cellfun (@ischar, ids) )
+ print_usage
+ end
+
+ elseif !all ( cellfun (@ischar, ids) )
+ print_usage
+ end
+
+ else
+ paths = obj.Path;
+ return
+ end
+
+ tf = ismember (ids, fieldnames (obj.Path));
+
+ cellfun (@(s) printf("'%s' is not a valid path id.\n", s) , {ids{!tf}});
+
+ paths = [];
+ if any (tf)
+ stuff = {ids{tf}};
+
+ for i = 1: numel(stuff)
+ paths{i} = obj.Path.(ids{i}).data;
+ endfor
+
+
+ % Variation
+% paths = cellfun(@(s) obj.Path.(s).data, stuff,'UniformOutput',false);
+
+ % Another variation
+% paths = cellfun(@(s) getfield(obj,'Path').(s).data, stuff,'UniformOutput',false);
+
+ % Yet another
+% paths = cellfun(@(s) getfield(obj.Path,s).data, stuff,'UniformOutput',false);
+
+ % Yet yet another
+% dummy = @(s) obj.Path.(s).data;
+% paths = cellfun(dummy, stuff,'UniformOutput',false);
+
+ if numel(paths) == 1
+ paths = paths{1};
+ end
+ end
+
+endfunction
+