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 Scala (2.11.7) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import scala.io.StdIn

object Main extends App {
  val out = new java.io.PrintWriter(System.out)

  val s = StdIn.readLine.toCharArray
  for(i <- 0 until s.length by 2) {
    out.print(s(i))
  }

  out.println
  out.flush
}