Reading data files

[Armando Pisani]

Dear Sir,
 I use scilab to  perform numerical anlysis. I usually produce data files with an header that describes the content of the file, so that the first line of the file is a list of characters, while the rest of the file is a numerical matrix.
If I ask scilab to read my files I get an error message. Is there a way to ask scilab to skip one or more lines when reading a file?

  Thank you very much, yours Armando Pisani.