I think Scott's file format is variable, with records delimited by newline. In this case, Scott, you can use %Stream.FileCharacter to read it if you set property LineTerminator = $C(10).
I have no experience with HL7 either.
This approach would fail for integers.
USER>Write 1\1+1
2
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Write $system.Version.IsUnicode()