Re: [Boost-users] help with boost::spirit:parsing out a list of menuitems

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By either auto attribute propagation or semantic action. I suggest the former if possible.

I'm not sure how to use the first. The second seems sort of easy, I would just use a function to do that, no?

The former is even more simple: just pass std::vector as an attribute. The attribute of (a % b) is vector<A> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/libs/spirit/doc/html/spirit/qi/quick_reference/qi_parsers/operator.html

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const std::string &data -> char const* data std::string::const_ iterator -> char const* data.begin() -> data data.end() -> data + length ...and so on

awesome, thanks. I didn't know that I could use that rather than an iterator

char * is also iterator (random access iterator).