Scanning a line for a carriage return

["Walter R. Paczkowski" <dataanalytics@earthlink.net>]

Hi,

I'm hoping someone has a suggestion for handling a simple problem. 
A client gave me a comma separated value file (call it x.csv) that has an
id and name and address for about 25,000 people (25,000 records).  I
used read.table to read it, but then discovered that there are stray
carriage returns on several records.  This plays havoc with
read.table since it starts a new input line when it sees the carriage
return.  In short, the read is all wrong.

I thought I could write a simple function to parse a line and write it
back out, character by character.  If a carriage return is found, it
would simply be ignored on the writing back out part.  But how do I
identify a carriage return?  What is the code or symbol?  Is
there any easier way to rid the file of carriage returns in the middle of
the input lines?

Any help is appreciated.

Walt Paczkowski

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