Claim about holomorphic extension

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Prove or disprove the following claim.

"For all continuous $f : S(0, 1) \to R$, there is a holomorphic $g : B(0, 1) \to C$ which extends to a continuous ${h : \overline {B(0, 1)}} \to C$ such that $\operatorname{Re}(h(z)) = f (z)$ for all $z \in S(0, 1)$?"

$S(0,1)$ is sphere of radius $1$ about the origin, and $B(0,1)$ is open ball of radius $1$ about the origin.$ \overline {B(0, 1)}$ is the closed ball of radius one about the origin.

Based on my attempts, this assertion appears to be true, but I am uncertain. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. I initially tried to use contradiction to show that it was false, but all of my counterexamples had shortcomings.

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Yes, this claim indeed is true. This is due to the fact that the Dirichlet Problem on the disk is solvable. See here for all the necessary details - http://people.reed.edu/~jerry/311/dirichlet.pdf