As far as I can tell, when using a purely regex solution, you pretty much have to keep the scanning for ascending and descending sequences separated. Otherwise overlapping sequences will be missed:

123xxxx56543

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Capturing in one go will return qw(123 56 543) instead of qw(123 56 6543);

my $asc = join '|', map {"$_(?=".(($_+1)%10).")"} (0..9);
my $dsc = join '|', map {"$_(?=".(($_+9)%10).")"} (0..9);

while (<DATA>) {
    my $longest = max map length, /((?:$asc)+)/g, /((?:$dsc)+)/g;
    print "$longest\n";
}

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Update: This was in reference to your last solution, as previous ones did take this into account.

In reply to Re^2: Find Length Of Longest Ascending/Descending Sequence by wind
in thread Find Length Of Longest Ascending/Descending Sequence by Limbic~Region

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