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surfing success

Here's your new board!

The RSA folks are delighted with your work.

This is exactly what
we need...
Look at how quickly it
pulls up each surfer's
data.

I might actually get I think the guys over
some beach time this at TVN might want to
year! take a look at this...

Your program really hits the mark. The RSA folks can display
the data from their tightly packed data file in a way that makes
it easy for them to read and work with. It’s fast, too. Here's your brand
Your use of a hash within the function was an inspired choice. new board... start
ripping it, dude!
The calling code only needs to be aware that a hash is being
returned from the function to work with it effectively. And, as
you’ve seen, returning a data structure (like a hash) is as easy
as returning any other variable from a function.

Word of your programming skills is spreading
far and wide.

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