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+## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Jaroslav Hajek
+## Copyright (C) 2009 VZLU Prague
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} optimget (@var{options}, @var{parname})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} optimget (@var{options}, @var{parname}, @var{default})
+## Return a specific option from a structure created by
+## @code{optimset}. If @var{parname} is not a field of the @var{options}
+## structure, return @var{default} if supplied, otherwise return an
+## empty matrix.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function retval = optimget (options, parname, default)
+
+ if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 4 || ! isstruct (options) || ! ischar (parname))
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ opts = __all_opts__ ();
+ idx = lookup (tolower (opts), tolower (parname), "m");
+
+ if (idx)
+ parname = opts{idx};
+ else
+ warning ("unrecognized option: %s", parname);
+ endif
+ if (isfield (options, parname))
+ retval = options.(parname);
+ elseif (nargin > 2)
+ retval = default;
+ else
+ retval = [];
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+