title: Read cells from Excel file in laravel
body: <p>i am using Laravel Excel v2.1.* for Laravel 5</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>Route::get('/', function () {
  
      $rows = Excel::load('storage\\app\\demo.xlsx')-&gt;ignoreEmpty()-&gt;skip(1)-&gt;get();
    echo "&lt;pre&gt;";
          print_r($rows-&gt;toArray());
          echo "&lt;/pre&gt;";
    });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>if my excel file have first row as heading and then values then its working fine.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QYdQj.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QYdQj.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>but i have excel file where first row of the excel file are have merged cells .so is there any option to read cell by cell </p>
  
  <p>but my excel files first row is having </p>
  
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