Using \l Within Tickerplant Process

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Hey Qbies, 
I have a file, engineFunctions.q, containing functions and a table that I want to load within a Tickerplant subprocess (in my cx.q file).

I’m attempting to load the file as such:

if[x~"ProcessName"; \l path/engineFunctions.q ]

^^ gives me `\ error.

I’ve done some research to try and figure this out and saw that maybe I should be using “system” instead of \l.

So I tried:

if[x~"ProcessName"; system "l", path/engineFunctions.q ]

^^ gives me  `/ error telling me that my path is incorrect.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Feels like I’m probably over-complicating this. 

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Hi John

Backslash to use command lines requires no preceding whitespace, or any other characters.

Your second attempt appears to fail because you’re not calling system with a string 

if[x~"ProcessName"; system "l path/engineFunctions.q"; ]

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Thanks!