textread...read first and last row

[turbofib]

hi,
look that 

01/04/2008 0.00000 0 0.00000 0.00000 0
02/04/2009 -600.00000 0 0.00000 931.25000 1
03/04/2010 750.00000 1 0.00000 1362.50000 2
04/04/2011 12.50000 1 -18.75000 1000.00000 2
05/04/2012 0.00000 0 0.00000 0.00000 2
06/04/2013 -256.25000 1 12.50000 343.75000 2
07/04/2014 -6.25000 1 0.00000 575.00000 2
08/04/2015 -1100.00000 0 12.50000 1556.25000 2

i want catch the first and the last row with textread (i want catch only
date)

the number of lines is not fixed

here i catch the first row (year 2008)
[datInizio]=textread (nomeFileDaEsaminare, "%s ",1);

how can i code to catch the last row?(year 2015)

thank to help me



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