Export matched contents to well-known file formats about comby HOT 4 CLOSED

There is support for json output via the -json-lines option. I'll add this to the quick reference so this is more discoverable. It is only possible to get line/column ranges via the -match-only flag. Without the -match-only flag, only the offset value is given for matches, and their content (the line/col locations are -1). In time I will add the line/col locations without the -match-only option.

Some examples for getting or using JSON data can be found in this PR.

Since there are existing tools to convert serializable formats like JSON to others, I don't think it's a priority to support XML/CSV natively.

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Are the supported JSON data formats documented already?

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Closing this, JSON output documented in https://comby.dev/docs/api

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Can the JSON output be documented in a more structured format besides examples and “summaries”?

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