How to do what MATLAB does with array[index:index] in Maxima?

I can't figure out how to dynamically take a portion at a time of a column vector in Maxima; for example I have the vector v = [a, b, c, d, e] and I want to take this: [a], [a, b], [a, b, c], etc. How can you do this in Maxima?

Answer 1

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v = [1 2 3 4 5] ;
N = length(v) ; 
iwant = cell(N,1) ;
for i = 1:N
    iwant{i} = v(1:i) ;
end
celldisp(iwant)

 
iwant{1} =
 
     1

 
 
iwant{2} =
 
     1     2

 
 
iwant{3} =
 
     1     2     3

 
 
iwant{4} =
 
     1     2     3     4

 
 
iwant{5} =
 
     1     2     3     4     5