Getting “index” of set element via iterator?

STL distance is what you need. Std::distance(set.begin(), find_result).

Std::set has just a bidirectional iterator, which means you can't do what you're trying to do with operator + (or -). Those are only available to random access iterators, like std::vector provides.

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