Hope this is not too trivial
I am reading a large file using scan.
In one part of this file there is a chunk of text within which i need to know
the positions of line breaks. But scan seems only
An example of the file is:
"
a 0 1 0
bftt 020
cftt T 1 R
a 0 1 2 1 2
b 0 1 2 2 2
c 0 10 00
"
so precisely i need in the scanned file in R to know where each carriage return
is in the file so that i can then identify the text strings (i.e. a, bftt,
cftt, a, b, c ) that immediately follow the carriage return
On a subsidiary matter, it would be very helpful if i could distinguish between
Unix, Dos, and Mac carriage returns in the data file
thanks
i should note also, that the input file contains much other stuff and is not in
the form of a table that can be read using read.table or other read version.
Nor do i know beforehand how many elements there are in each line
Donald
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