Extraction I: Secret Message in the Noise

Elementary+

A spy has hidden a secret message inside a string text of random characters. Your task is to extract the hidden message by pulling out every step-th character.

Input: Two arguments. String (str) and positive integer (int).

Output: String.

Examples:

assert extraction("hxeqlzlzow!", 2) == "hello!"
assert extraction("abcdefr", 2) == "acer"
assert extraction("dbcoefc", 3) == "doc"

Preconditions:

step > 0

numbers
string

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