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 Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class Main {

    BufferedReader br;
    PrintWriter out;
    StringTokenizer st;
    boolean eof;
    final long MOD = 1000L * 1000L * 1000L + 7;

    void solveA() throws IOException {
        int x = nextInt();
        int t = nextInt();
        outln(Math.max(0, x - t));
    }
    void solveB() throws IOException {
        String str = nextString();
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
            if (i % 2 == 0) {
                sb.append(str.charAt(i));
            }
        }

        outln(sb.toString());
    }
    void solveC() throws IOException {



    }
    void solveD() throws IOException {



    }

    void shuffle(int[] a) {
        int n = a.length;
        for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            int r = i + (int) (Math.random() * (n - i));
            int tmp = a[i];
            a[i] = a[r];
            a[r] = tmp;
        }
    }
    private void outln(Object o) {
        out.println(o);
    }
    private void out(Object o) {
        out.print(o);
    }
    public Main() throws IOException {
        br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        out = new PrintWriter(System.out);

        solveB();

        out.close();
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        new Main();
    }

    public long[] nextLongArr(int n) throws IOException{
        long[] res = new long[n];
        for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            res[i] = nextLong();
        return res;
    }
    public int[] nextIntArr(int n) throws IOException {
        int[] res = new int[n];
        for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            res[i] = nextInt();
        return res;
    }
    public String nextToken() {
        while (st == null || !st.hasMoreTokens()) {
            try {
                st = new StringTokenizer(br.readLine());
            } catch (Exception e) {
                eof = true;
                return null;
            }
        }
        return st.nextToken();
    }
    public String nextString() {
        try {
            return br.readLine();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            eof = true;
            return null;
        }
    }
    public int nextInt() throws IOException {
        return Integer.parseInt(nextToken());
    }
    public long nextLong() throws IOException {
        return Long.parseLong(nextToken());
    }
    public double nextDouble() throws IOException {
        return Double.parseDouble(nextToken());
    }
}