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 Rust (1.15.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)


use std::io::*;
use std::str::FromStr;

pub fn read<T: FromStr>() -> T {
  let stdin = stdin();
  let stdin = stdin.lock();
  let token: String = stdin
    .bytes()
    .map(|c| c.expect("failed to read char") as char)
    .skip_while(|c| c.is_whitespace())
    .take_while(|c| !c.is_whitespace())
    .collect();
  token.parse().ok().expect("failed to parse token")
}

use std::cmp::{max, min};
use std::collections::HashMap;

fn main() {
  let x = read::<String>();
  let mut ans = String::from("");

  for (i, k) in x.chars().enumerate() {
    let nth = i + 1;
    if nth % 2 == 1 {
      ans.push_str(&k.to_string())
    }
  }

  println!("{}", ans);
}