C++ code to load/play skel mesh component animation

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Looking for minimal C++ code to load and play an animation on a skeletal mesh. To make it easy just fill in the ???:

// initializing the mesh and animation in an actor's constructor
FString uniqueName;
const char* meshAssetName;
const char* animationAssetName;

USkeletalMeshComponent* newMesh = CreateDefaultSubobject<USkeletalMeshComponent>(FName(*uniqueName));
RootComponent = newMesh;
ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder<USkeletalMesh> newAsset(ANSI_TO_TCHAR(meshAssetName));

if (newAsset.Succeeded())
{
     newMesh->SetSkeletalMesh(newAsset.Object);
     newMesh->SetCollisionEnabled(ECollisionEnabled::QueryAndPhysics);
     
      // how to load and assign a single animation here given "animationAssetName"
     ???
}

// playing the animation during run time
???

Do not care about blending. Just 1 mesh, 1 animation, and Play(). Should be easy right? The documentation for this seems lacking though and I cannot find a simple example like this. ;(

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Found it: