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 consecutive_len = 1;
    for (int i = 1; i < n; i++){
        mem++;
        if (*(mem - 1) == (*mem) - 1){
            consecutive_len++;
            if (consecutive_len == 3){
                return i-2;
            }
        }
        else{
            consecutive_len = 1;
        }
    }
    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;
}

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