IDA Pro: How to export data to C style array?

Question

While disassembling a malware binary, I came across several arrays of shorts. The size of each array is 1024 members. I would like to export them to C style arrays, as:

short array1[1024] = { 2, 5, 8, ... , 4};  /* This is just an example */

I could definitely do Copy/Paste and edit the whole thing by hand. However, it seems to be pretty tedious. I wonder, is there a better approach to achieve it? Could it be done with script/plugin?

Answer 1

A small script will do the trick. In IDC, something like:

auto ea, len, i;
len = 1024;
ea = /* whatever */;

Message("short array[1024] = {\n  ");
for(i = 0; i < len; i = i + 1)
{
  Message("0x%.04lx", Word(ea+i*2));
  if( i != (len - 1) )
    Message(",");

  if(i > 0 && (i % 0x1f) == 0)
    Message("\n  ");
}
Message("};\n\n");

To Handle Bytes instead of Words
Replace 
`Word(...)` with `Byte(...)` 
and
`0x%.04lx` with `0x%.02lx`
and
 Word(ea+i*2) with Byte(ea+i)

To Handle DWORDs instead of WORDs
Replace 
`Word(...)` with `DWord(...)` 
and
`0x%.04lx` with `0x%.08lx`
and
 Word(ea+i*2) with DWord(ea+i*4)

Answer 2

Old question, but as of IDA 6.5, there is a new menu option Edit/Export data... that handles this situation for you. First select the data you wish to export then, via the menu option, choose the output format and file name in which to save the data.