Here's my lazy attempt

use strict;

## I've lazily pre-sorted these ;)
my @ars = (
  [ qw/ 1 2 3 4 5 / ],
  [ qw/ 1 2 3 4 6 / ],
  [ qw/ 2 3 4 6 7 / ],
);

for(@ars) {
  print "broken list: @$_\n" and next
    if $_->[0] != 1;
  
  my($i, $n) = 0;
    
  $n = $_->[$i]
    while $i <= $#{$_} and $_->[$i] + 1 == $_->[++$i];
         
  print "woo: @$_\n"
    if $n == $_->[-1];
  print "doh: sequence broke at index ${\($i - 1)} (@$_[$i - 1,$i])\n"
    if $n != $_->[-1];
}

__output__

woo: 1 2 3 4 5
doh: sequence broke at index 3 (4 6)
broken list: 2 3 4 6 7
[download]

So basically it checks the sequence by iterating through the pre-sorted array until there's a gap in the sequence. Then just checks whether the end value is the same as last value seen in the iteration.
HTH

_________
broquaint

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