Carriage Return in External table column

Im using Oracle 9.2.0.6 . On Aix.
Ive created and external table pointing to a csv file.
When I do a select on the last column of the external_table, it contains a carriage return / linefeed. If I try to make the colums specification smaller then it throws and error
ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column
How can I eliminate this unwanted character.
line from csv file
2,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BB
table spec
create table x_needsprop
external_prop_ref varchar2(20),
floor_level     varchar2(20),
dcc     varchar2(4),
lc     varchar2(4),
ptd     varchar2(4),
wc     varchar2(4),
ec     varchar2(4),
rspr     varchar2(4),
err     varchar2(4),
ctb     varchar2(4),
bd     varchar2(4),
nda     varchar2(4),
ndd     varchar2(4),
vsam     varchar2(4),
res_type varchar2(5)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( type oracle_loader
default directory external_dir
access parameters
( fields terminated by ',' )
location ('needsprop.csv')
/

According to the documentation, adding the trim specifer 'RTRIM' directs that "spaces should be trimmed from the end of a text field. Spaces include blanks and other nonprinting characters such as tabs, line feeds, and carriage returns."
create table x_needsprop
external_prop_ref varchar2(20),
floor_level varchar2(20),
dcc varchar2(4),
lc varchar2(4),
ptd varchar2(4),
wc varchar2(4),
ec varchar2(4),
rspr varchar2(4),
err varchar2(4),
ctb varchar2(4),
bd varchar2(4),
nda varchar2(4),
ndd varchar2(4),
vsam varchar2(4),
res_type varchar2(5)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
( type oracle_loader
default directory external_dir
access parameters
( fields terminated by ',' RTRIM)
location ('needsprop.csv')
)

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