Equals operator does not copy an image

[Jonathan Camilleri]

I just noticed that the equals operator '=' removes the dimension of an image, rendering it to grayscale.

imread('04356.jpg');

ans(:,:,1) =

 Columns 1 through 15:

....

I need a method to decode these numbers.

newimage=ans(:, :, 1)

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