Javascript - How Do I Check if 3 Numbers Are Consecutive and Return Starting Points?

Question

If I have an array of [1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 9, 8, 9, 10, 11, 7] and wanted to find each case of 3 consecutive numbers (whether ascending or descending), how would I do that?

Second part would be then to alert an array with the index of each of these sequences.

For ex. the previous array would return [0,4,6,7].

So far I have this... which is a rough start

var arr = [1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 9, 8, 9, 10, 11, 7];
var results = [];

for (var i = 1; i < arr.length; i++) {
    if ((arr[i] - arr[i-1] != 1) && (arr[i] - arr[i+1] != 1)) {
        results.push(arr[i]);
    }

}
alert(results);

Thanks for the help!

Thanks for the math.abs pointer. This is what I ended up doing:

var array = [1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 9, 8, 9, 10, 11, 7];
var indexes = [];

for(var i=0; i < array.length; i++) {
    var diff = array[i+1] - array[i];
    if(Math.abs(diff)==1 && array[i+1]+diff == array[i+2]) {
        indexes.push(i);
    }
}
alert(indexes);

Answer 1

It'd be interesting to know the context of this task as well... Anyway, here's my solution:

var arr     = [1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 9, 8, 9, 10, 11, 7];
var results = [];
var limit   = arr.length - 1; 

var sequence = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < limit; ++i) {
  var diff = arr[i+1] - arr[i];
  if (sequence && sequence === diff) {
    results.push(i-1);
    continue;
  }
  sequence = (diff === 1 || diff === -1) // or ... Math.abs(diff) === 1
           ? diff
           : 0;
}
console.log(results);

The idea is simple: we don't need to compare two neighbors twice. ) It's enough to raise a kind of sequence flag if this comparation starts a sequence, and lower it if no sequence is there.