Improve formatting for arrays

refs #10527

diff --git a/lib/base/configwriter.cpp b/lib/base/configwriter.cpp
index 737305eaca9091a9970fc053cc6e94dd35852c2c..eac3ca7b9650408f7554f68321fa2f366d21c28e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/base/configwriter.cpp
+++ b/lib/base/configwriter.cpp
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ void ConfigWriter::EmitArray(std::ostream& fp, int indentLevel, const Array::Ptr
 {
        fp << "[ ";
        EmitArrayItems(fp, indentLevel, val);
-       fp << " ]";
+       if (val->GetLength() > 0)
+               fp << " ";
+       fp << "]";
 }
 
 void ConfigWriter::EmitArrayItems(std::ostream& fp, int indentLevel, const Array::Ptr& val)