C Programming Issue - URGENT - Please help

Hi Everyone,

I am currently working on a C computing project and have managed to export stored data to excel as a table. However I am hoping to improve this and:

1.) Get excel to open automatically to display the table without me opening the file from my documents
2.) And also plot a graph of the data stored in excel using c coding

My code currently reads:

FILE * fp;

fp = fopen ("tableoftpgk.csv", "w+");
fprintf(fp, "Time (s),Momentum(Kg m/s),GPE(MJ),KE(MJ)\n");
for (i=0;i<(end/dt);i++){
fprintf(fp, "%f,%f,%f,%f\n",stored_t,stored_Momentum,stored_Epotential,stored_Ekinetic);
}
fclose(fp);

As you can see I am using formulas to calculate Momentum, Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy as Time, T goes by.

Is it possible to get Excel to open automatically and can I get this data to be plotted in Excel?

Any help would be MASSIVELY appreciated and I will give positive feedback for any help.

PS: My compiler is Dev-C

Good luck is all I can say... you'd be better off using python to plot something using the pyplot library. Excel and C are very hard to intergrate at all let alone integrate well and it sounds like you are relatively new to coding so you'll really struggle...

Have you / are you able to consider(ed) using C++/CLI or C# for this? TMN, both can hook into office pretty well but you'd want to check since I haven't tried it myself so can't advise if it's appropriate for this situation.

I'm afraid not - The assignment is to be completed in C only. Is what I ask possible to do or is it worth scrapping the ideas?

Thanks. See my credentials below.

Futureengineer1
20 Year Old PHD Student in Computer Science
Kings College - Cambridge