How to query wp_options table?

I feel so clueless. I installed the Simple Tagging plugin. It has an entry inwp_options called stp_options. It appears to be an array of strings. I can retrieve it from a query and a print_r statement displays the whole thing. There is one entry called ‘meta_always_include’.

I just can’t figure out how to extract that string! I have tried usinf $options[‘meta_always_include’]. That doesn’t seem to work.

Any ideas?

thanks,

brian