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How to make a Broadcast Chat Command?

I wanted to make a message broadcast in chat when you type a command, for example, the /me command. I know how to make a system message but no clue how to make this code. For example, I would type /announce hi in chat and "hi" would pop up in the chat as a system message.

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well you need to keep track of who is allowed to do commands, and then when they chat you process the command..

like this:

local admins = {"void_node", "builderman", "badcc", etc}
local Players = game:GetService("Players")


local commands = {
	announce = function(msg)
		print(msg)
	end,
	--add more command processors 
}


Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	for _, admin in pairs(admins) do
		if(admin.Name:lower() == player.Name:lower()) then
			player.Chatted:Connect(onChatted)
		end
	end

end)

function onChatted(msg)
	local command = msg:match("^%\(%w+)");
	local processor = commands [command]
	if processor  then
		processor(msg:sub(#command + 1))
	end
end

now if you chat something like this:

"/announce Server is shutting down" it will print in the output Server is shutting down

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