Can one let Matlab to remove lines of the spreadsheet before the data?

I have a spreadsheet "visitors.xlsx" like

title of the spreadsheet: daily visitors
source: state
date visitors
January 1 2020 100
January 2 2020 50

A brute force is that I open spreadsheet by Excel and remove the first two rows by myself and then let Matlab read the table. But is it possible that one let Matlab read "visitors.xlsx" and delete the first two lines?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

[~, ~, raw] = xlsread(filename);
raw = raw(3:end, :); % Extract starting at row #3.

Save it again if you want to.

[alpedhuez]

Let me work on it.