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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 
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