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 step = 0;
    while( step <= n-1){
        int * first = mem+step;
        int * second = mem+step+1;

        if(*second - *first == 1){
            int * third = mem+step+2;
            if(*third - *second == 1){
                return step;
            }
            step++;
            continue;
        }
        step++;
        continue;
    }


    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