Exercise: Transpose text

Write a function that receives a string and a number transpose(text, width) and returns a string in which the characters are transposed:

Given this input: “abcdefg”, 2

You can create this intermediate table

ab
cd
ef
g

And then read in the characters column-by-column to return this: “acegbdf”.

Given this input: “abcdefg”, 3

The intermediate table is this:

`` abc def g

And the result is "adgbecf"



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