tempTimer question

[AlterAeonUser]

I have been beating my head against the keyboard for about an hour now because I am trying to do something I'm not entirely sure is possible. Nowhere in the help files, or on here can I find out if it's possible to pass a number to a variable and put said variable in place of the time number for a tempTimer.

so, instead of being forced to a static time: tempTimer(60, [[send("say something"]]) I want to be able to do this from an alias:

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Pattern: 
aliasname 10 argument1 argument2

and have it pass the number to the tempTimer for the time.
Like this:

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Code:
tempTimer(time, [["send say " .. argument1 .. argument2]])

So when I type aliasname 20 argument1 argument2 it will wait 20 seconds to fire.
Is what I want to do even possible?

[Oneymus]

It's very possible.

Alias pattern (this is very basic, and should be cleaned up):

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^timedSay (\d+) (\w+) (\w+)$

Script:

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local time = tonumber(matches[2])
local arguments = matches[3] .. matches[4]

tempTimer(time, [[send("say ]] .. arguments .. [[")]])

Usual disclaimer: written in browser. Untested.