Scan Memory for Three Consecutive Increasing Values

Code

#include <stdio.h>

int find_pattern(int *mem, int n) {
    if(n<3) return -1;
    int count=0;
    int *start = mem;        
    int *end = mem + n-2;  

       while(mem<end){
            
            if((*(mem + 1) == *mem + 1))count++;
            else count=0;

            if (count==2) return (mem-1)-start;

            mem++;
        }
   
 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