in reply to Adjacent numbers

It's almost a one-liner :)

#!/usr/bin/perl # http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1148176 use strict; use warnings; my %used; print grep /_/ && !$used{$_}++, (join '', <DATA>) =~ /^(.*?(\d+)\n)(?=(.*?(\d+)\n))(??{1 != abs($2 - $4)&&'(*F)'})/gm; __DATA__ 2L_33 2L_34 3L_45 3L_87 X_202 X_203 X_204