1_3a How to read data from text files in MATLAB 

Yes, it does. So, in your question, it will be 3 headerlines

Maybe using a loop (if they are many files)? Or just open them separately (using different fids, e.g., fid1, fid2,... etc) if they are just two or few files

see this www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fprintf.html

You can do this: a = textscan(fid, '%f %f', 'headerlines', n); where n is the number of string lines written on top of the data you want to remove/skip. You can replace n with 1 if the string line is only 1, or 2 if there are 2 string lines,.... and so on

@@afrinova thanks

Andres, it is exactly the same way; just do the %f (in the textscan function) to be the same number of times as the number of columns in the matrix