Swift Basic Programming Exercise: Create a string taking characters at indexes 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, .. from a given string

Swift Basic Programming: Exercise-26 with Solution

Write a Swift program to create a string taking characters at indexes 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, .. from a given string.

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Sample Solution:

Swift Code:

func chars_string(_ input: String) -> String {
    var new_str = input
    var count = 1
     while count < (new_str.characters.count) {
        new_str.remove(at: new_str.index(new_str.startIndex, offsetBy: count))
        count += 1
    }
       return new_str
}
print(chars_string("abcdefgh"))
print(chars_string("abcdefg"))
print(chars_string("abcdef"))

Sample Output:

aceg
aceg
ace

Swift Programming Code Editor:

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