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Display the first four characters from each line of text.

Input Format

A text file with lines of ASCII text only.

Constraints

(N is the number of lines of text in the input file)

Output Format

The output should contain N lines. Each line should contain just the first four characters of the corresponding input line.

Sample Input

Hello
World
how are you

Sample Output

Hell
Worl
how 

Author

PRASHANTB1984

Difficulty

Easy

Max Score

1

Submitted By

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