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Given a string as an input (which can be any acceptable/convenient format in your language), implement pendulum encoding. The test cases are split into individual items (which aren't quoted) for a visually appealing explanation. ## How do I do that? The current **iteration index** starts at `0`. * If the iteration index is even, append the current item onto the output string. * If the iteration index is odd, prepend the current item onto the output string. ## An example ``` The input is [a b c d e f g]. Note that the letters a-g are individual one-character strings, to prevent confusion from the iteration index. N: the iteration index N:0 Out: [a] N:1 Out: [b a] N:2 Out: [b a c] N:3 Out: [d b a c] N:4 Out: [d b a c e] N:5 Out:[f d b a c e] N:6 Out:[f d b a c e g] ``` The output should be `[f d b a c e g]`. # Another example ``` The input is [u d l n u e m p]. N:0 Out: [u] N:1 Out: [d u] N:2 Out: [d u l] N:3 Out: [n d u l] N:4 Out: [n d u l u] N:5 Out: [e n d u l u] N:6 Out: [e n d u l u m] N:7 Out:[p e n d u l u m] ``` ## Test cases [Here](https://tio.run/##lVLNaoQwEL77FHNZMBhl22OXLeToZdmjyxJK6o5LQKONkV767naibbQUSp1LyMz3MzMJ2lqZe4p9aXXnxjHq0NyGemjiq@QgOLwwSJ9BHKJV5fJRzMXcFyOg2IFun96tdhgLxpeUqeOvq66mw0cOFht4hOMR9l59B6Lz6llA@Ah@BXlBksD1Qq45JPDADgHp7ICzxtni3yLE9zLiW2QCToxltiJMtGLSKvaMUI3ShvYSIGHkZTWKv/KS3zjyit8lY/znDn4T5Lpb@AdBya2EuSW5hSA3OyjyIB@5JmT0KqfWpIPRb/RKDnuXlqpHqGzb0B@gZO@ycfwE)'s a sample program doing this encoding. Take note that the characters in the string aren't always unique. ``` Your output *has* to be flattened. [a,b,c,d,e,f,g] -> [f,d,b,a,c,e,g] [] -> [] [a] -> [a] [a,b,c,d] -> [d,b,a,c] [a,b] -> [b,a] [a,b,d] -> [b,a,d] [a,b,a,c,b,c] -> [c,c,b,a,a,b] [a,a,b,b,c,c] -> [c,b,a,a,b,c] [u,d,l,n,u,e,m,p] -> [p,e,n,d,u,l,u,m]
APL (Dyalog Extended)
[APL (Dyalog Extended)](https://github.com/abrudz/dyalog-apl-extended), 11 [bytes](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9429/43319 "When can APL characters be counted as 1 byte each?") ([SBCS](https://github.com/abrudz/SBCS ".dyalog files using a single byte character set"))
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