Problem:
Score : 200 points

Problem Statement

You are given a string s consisting of lowercase English letters. Extract all the characters in the odd-indexed positions and print the string obtained by concatenating them. Here, the leftmost character is assigned the index 1.

Constraints

Each character in s is a lowercase English letter.

1≤|s|≤10^5

Input

The input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

s

Output

Print the string obtained by concatenating all the characters in the odd-numbered positions.

Sample Input 1

atcoder

Sample Output 1

acdr

Extract the first character a, the third character c, the fifth character d and the seventh character r to obtain acdr.

Sample Input 2

aaaa

Sample Output 2

aa

Sample Input 3

z

Sample Output 3

z

Sample Input 4

fukuokayamaguchi

Sample Output 4

fkoaaauh

Solution in C# (Mono 4.6.2.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace AtCoder {
    public class Program {
        static int[] getKeys() {
            var Keys = Console.ReadLine().Split(' ');
            int N = Keys.Length;
            int[] Ns = new int[N];
            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
                Ns[i] = int.Parse(Keys[i]);
            }
            return Ns;
        }
        static int[] getKeys(char delimiter) {
            var Keys = Console.ReadLine().Split(delimiter);
            int N = Keys.Length;
            int[] Ns = new int[N];
            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
                Ns[i] = int.Parse(Keys[i]);
            }
            return Ns;
        }
        public static void Show<T>(T[,] map) {
            int H = map.GetLength(0);
            int W = map.GetLength(1);
            Console.WriteLine("-------------------------");
            for (int i = 0; i < H; i++) {
                for (int j = 0; j < W; j++) {
                    Console.Write(map[i, j] + " ");
                }
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
            Console.WriteLine("-------------------------");
        }
        public static void Show<T>(T[,] map, string delimiter) {
            int H = map.GetLength(0);
            int W = map.GetLength(1);
            Console.WriteLine("-------------------------");
            for (int i = 0; i < H; i++) {
                for (int j = 0; j < W; j++) {
                    Console.Write(map[i, j] + delimiter);
                }
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
            Console.WriteLine("-------------------------");
        }
        public static void Show<T>(IEnumerable<T> ts) {
            foreach (var item in ts) {
                Console.Write(item + " ");
            }
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
        public static void Show<T>(IEnumerable<T> ts, string delimiter) {
            foreach (var item in ts) {
                Console.Write(item + delimiter);
            }
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
        static void Main() {
            string s = Console.ReadLine();
            string answer = "";
            for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++) {
                if (i % 2 == 0) {
                    answer += s[i];
                }
            }
            Console.WriteLine(answer);
        }
    }
}