Before I went to bed last night I had a thought on Perl (happens every night :) ). My family has a cell phone plan and they have 4 different phone numbers and they're consecutive: (the last 4 digits are) 0802,0803,0804,0805.

I spent the day wondering how they can do that when people request "I want X phone numbers and I want them consecutive.". How could you have a program that asks for the number of numbers you want back from a list that are consecutive phone numbers (or ANY numbers since this isn't something that will be applied, it's just an interesting thing I was wondering) and display then for you?

my @array = (1,5,6,7,8,55,63,77,89,103,104,105,106,200,215,554);

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In reply to Consecutive number checking by Anonymous Monk

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