Scan Memory for Three Consecutive Increasing Values

Code

#include <stdio.h>

int find_pattern(int *mem, int n) {
    // Write your pointer-based logic here
    int ret = -1;
    for(int i =0; i < n-2 ;i++) {
        if ((*(mem + i) + 1 == *(mem + i + 1)) && (*(mem + i) + 2 == *(mem + i + 2))) {
            ret = i;
            break;
        }
    }
    if (ret >= 0)
    return ret;
    return -1;
}

int main() {
    int n, arr[100];
    scanf("%d", &n);

    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        scanf("%d", &arr[i]);
    }

    int res = find_pattern(arr, n);
    printf("%d", res);

    return 0;
}

Solving Approach