NewTLE function

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/convert.go b/convert.go
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+package TLE
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+func NewTLE(RawTLE string) (TLE, error) {
+
+	// split the TLE
+	var SplitTLE []string = strings.Split(RawTLE, "\n")
+
+	//fmt.Printf("%#v", SplitTLE)
+	fmt.Printf("Line one, first char: %v", SplitTLE[1][0])
+
+	// Line One
+
+	// parse the line number
+	LineOneLinenumber, err := strconv.Atoi(string(SplitTLE[1][0]))
+	if err != nil {
+		return TLE{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %#v", "Could not parse the line number", SplitTLE[0][1])
+	}
+
+	var generatedTLE TLE = TLE{
+		TitleLine: TitleLine{
+			Satname: fmt.Sprintf("%-25s", SplitTLE[0][0:24]),
+		},
+		LineOne: LineOne{
+			Linenumber:      int8(LineOneLinenumber),
+			SatelliteNumber: 0,
+			Classification:  0,
+			InternationalDesignator: InternationalDesignator{
+				Launchyear:   0,
+				Launchnumber: 0,
+				Launchpiece:  0,
+			},
+			Epoch: Epoch{
+				Year:        0,
+				Dayfraction: 0,
+			},
+			Firstderiv:       0,
+			Secondderiv:      0,
+			BSTAR:            0,
+			Numberzero:       0,
+			ElementSetNumber: 0,
+			Checksum:         0,
+		},
+		LineTwo: LineTwo{},
+	}
+
+	return generatedTLE, nil
+}