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 Java (OpenJDK 11.0.6) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.util.*;
// warm-up
public class Main {

	static void solve() {
		Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
		StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
		int i = 0;
		for (char ch : sc.next().toCharArray()) {
			if (i==0) s.append(ch);
			i+=(i==1) ? -1 : 1;
		}
		System.out.println(s);
		sc.close();		
	}

	public static void main(String args[]) {
		solve();
	}

}