So to cut straight to the chase - I'm lazy, IDA is mysterious, I need to use IDA arrays in my IDC code for convenience. Because IDC is like C(++) in its syntax I figured I could do:
auto lala[4] = {0,1,2,3};
But that doesn't work. Neither do round or square brackets. Trying to do lala[0] produces this output:
Cannot use [] operator on scalars
What gives?
IDC is closer to C than C++ but both limited in some ways and more flexible in others than C. It supports several variable types but arrays is not one of them:
A variable can contain:
- LONG: a 32-bit signed long integer (64-bit in 64-bit version of IDA)
- INT64: a 64-bit signed long integer
- STR: a character string
- FLOAT: a floating point number (extra precision, up to 25 decimal digits)
- OBJECT: an object with attributes and methods (a concept very close to C++ class) more
- REF: a reference to another variable
- FUNC: a function reference
However, you can use slice syntax with objects to simulate arrays:
auto x = object();
x[0] = value1;
x[1] = "value2";
