trouble indexing cell array

[Tim Meehan]

I'm having a strange problem shown below. I want to take a subset of a cell array and save it as a new variable. I can index the subset just fine, but when I try to save the subset into a new variable, it saves as only one element in the array. I'm mystified, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

octave:326> filenames{2:10}

ans = _L_V1d.mat

ans = _L_V1v_vox.mat

ans = _L_V2d.mat

ans = _L_V2v_vox.mat

ans = _L_V3.mat

ans = _L_V3A_dors.mat

ans = _L_V3A_vox.mat

ans = _L_V4_vox.mat

ans = _L_VP_vox.mat

octave:327> test = filenames{2:10}

test = _L_V1d.mat