Several people have been asking the question of how it would be possible to access the current iterator position from a semantic action. Different solutions have been proposed, all of them somehow abusing the predefined Qi directive raw[] which normally exposes as its attribute the pair of iterators pointing to the range in the input stream matched by the embedded parser. I thought this to be a nice incentive to write about how you can create your own parser components.

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