Find the index of first and last non zero in column
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I got the array as shown

I would like to extract the index (idx) of the  first and last non zero in column, how can I do that.
The expected return of the code is 
data(idx_first) = [1 1 2]
data(idx_last) = [1 5 5]
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  Chunru
      
      
 on 2 Jun 2021
        x = [0 1 0 4; 1 2 0 1; 0 1 2 0; 0 0 0 0]
[m, n] = size(x);
ind = zeros(1, n);
for i=1:n
    xlast = find(x(:, i), 1, 'last');
    ind(i) = sub2ind([m n], xlast, i);
end
x(ind)
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  Chunru
      
      
 on 2 Jun 2021
				[m, n] = size(x);
ind = nan(1, n);
for i=1:n
    xlast = find(x(:, i), 1, 'last');
    if ~isempty(xlast)
        ind(i) = sub2ind([m n], xlast, i);
    end
end
y = zeros(1,n);
ind0 = ~isnan(ind);
y(ind0) = x(ind(ind0))
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  KSSV
      
      
 on 2 Jun 2021
        A = [0 89 90 0 99 100 0] ; 
id1 = find(A,1,'first')
id2 = find(A,1,'last')
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