Provide facility for large arrays to be output over long multiple lines

[JamesH65]

When you have a large array (let's say 1000 integers) that needs to be written out, it will be written out one int per line. It would be very useful to be able to specify how many items (or a max line length) are output per line to improve formatting and remove the need for a lot of CR's

e.g, with a max items per line of 10

{
"array" :
[
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29
],
}

[BillyGoto]

On Thursday, August 20, 2015, JamesH65 notifications@github.com wrote:

When you have a large array (let's say 1000 integers) that needs to be
written out, it will be written out one int per line. It would be very
useful to be able to specify how many items (or a max line length) are
output per line to improve formatting and remove the need for a lot of CR's

e.g, with a max items per line of 10

{
"array" :
[
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29
],
}

it's not the count per line that matters, is it?
If you want tabular format, you should probably use space-padding to make
nice even columns. Then the count per line is fixed, sure. If you just
want maximal bin-packing to a column limit, do that, sure. These are both
slightly different from just having a fixed number of elements per row,
though. Just having a fixed number of elements leaves jagged fields that
might as well have been bun-packed.

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[JamesH65]

The problem is that if, for example, I have 1000 numbers, they take up 1000 lines (with an extra 1000 carriage returns). I need to spread the load over multiple lines. Could be #items per line, could be a max line length, could be tabular, could be jagged. Doesn't matter. Just needs to make the #lines used somewhat saner.