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Problem B
Every Other Letter

Accepted submissions to this problem will be granted a score of 100

Write a program that, given a string $s$ , removes every other letter from $s$ starting at index $1$ .

Input

Input consists of one line containing a (the) string $s$ , and $1 \leq | s | \leq 10^{6}$ , where $| s |$ denotes the length of the string $s$ .

Output

Output consists of one line containing what remains of the input string $s$ (the odd-numbered characters), after the even-numbered characters have been removed.

Sample Input 1	Sample Output 1
engage	egg

Sample Input 2	Sample Output 2
weekend	weed

Sample Input 3	Sample Output 3
the prince is here	tepic shr

Sample Input 4	Sample Output 4
drainage	dang

Sample Input 5	Sample Output 5
thesaurus	tears

Sample Input 6	Sample Output 6
al	a

Attachments

starter_code.py tests.py

Problem BEvery Other Letter

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Problem B
Every Other Letter