## Copyright (C) 2008 Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} optimget (@var{options}, @var{parname})
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} optimget (@var{options}, @var{parname}, @var{default})
## Used to retrieve 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 (isfield (options, parname))
    retval = options.(parname);
  elseif (nargin > 2)
    retval = default;
  else
    retval = [];
  endif

endfunction