how to remove header row

Hi

I have a file and need to extract lines with specific names, namely rows that their forth colomns are str*dep01

So I used data inport tool to read it into a table

writetable(FAULTSTATIONS,'FAULTSTATIONS.txt','Delimiter',' ','WriteRowNames',true)  
type 'FAULTSTATIONS.txt'

then I got

VarName1 VarName2 VarName3 VarName4 VarName5
-150000 -100000 0 "str01dep01" 1
-132765.8649 -100000 -3038.843 "str01dep02" 1
-103221.6342 -100000 -8248.288 "str01dep03" 1
-73677.42052 -100000 -13457.73 "str01dep04" 1
-14588.95908 -100000 -23876.62 "str01dep05" 1

I need to remove the header first (VarName1........VarName5) and use something like

filename = 'FAULTSTATION.txt';

? = importdata(filename);

I am sorry I have no idea what to do,would you please tell me what to do

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

t=readtable('FAULTSTATIONS.txt'); % tables by default have variable names so covert to cell
table2cell(t)  

[Samaneh Arzpeima]

thank you,I've got a cell without the header row. not sure how to extract what i need.

I wanted to import the original file to text file, delete the first line and save the remaining lines to a new text file. Then extract those rows which their 4th colomns match with

str * dep01