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Requirements:

Take a single word input on stdin with only lowercase alphabetical characters (a-z)
Output a string where every other character is repeated, with the first repeated character being the second character in the string
Example:

Input: abcde

Output: abbcdde

Winning Criteria: Standard code golf. Shortest number of bytes in program wins.

Requirements:

Take a single word input on stdin with only lowercase alphabetical characters (a-z)
Output a string where every other character is repeated, with the first repeated character being the second character in the string
Example:

Input: abcde

Output: abbcdde

Winning Criteria:
Standard code golf. Shortest number of bytes in program wins.

Clarification:
For languages with 1-based indexing the output must still match the above, aabccdee is not an acceptable solution.

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Repeat odd index characters
Requirements:

Take a single word input on stdin with only lowercase alphabetical characters (a-z)
Output a string where every odd index character (starting from 0 as first character) is repeated once
Example:

Input: abcde

Output: abbcdde

Winning Criteria: Standard code golf. Shortest number of bytes in program wins.

Repeat every other character in string starting with second character
Requirements:

Take a single word input on stdin with only lowercase alphabetical characters (a-z)
Output a string where every other character is repeated, with the first repeated character being the second character in the string
Example:

Input: abcde

Output: abbcdde

Winning Criteria: Standard code golf. Shortest number of bytes in program wins.

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