How to construct this matrix without loop?

Hi, everyone:

suppose I have a vector x=[a b c d e f g h ... z]. Is it possible to construct a matrix such that:

X=[a b c d; b c d e; c d e f; d e f g; e f g h; ... w x y z];

without for-loop?

many thanks

Answer 1

[Matt J]

 X =  x(bsxfun(@plus,(0:22).',(1:4)))

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Example

x=[2 4 8 12 13 19 20 25]
out=cell2mat(arrayfun(@(ii) x(ii:ii+3),(1:numel(x)-3)','un',0))