Some of the import functions such as textscan and readtable have an option to skip any number of header lines. However, the main issue is that your file is encoded in UTF16 which matlab doesn't officially support (a bit ironical since matlab use UTF16 internally!)
While matlab can still read the file, you'll always get a wall of warning messages if you do. Is there an option to get the file in another encoding (UTF8 ideally).
