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Common Characters in Strings

Given two strings, return a list of characters that are common to both strings. Each character in the output should appear as many times as it is present in both strings. Input Format: Two lines where each line contains one string. Output Format: A single line of space-separated characters that are common in both strings, in the order of their appearance in the first string. Example: Input: aabbcc aabb Output: aa

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