Javascript how to know if an array is subarray of another

Question

How could I do the following in javascript in efficient way?

I've counter of 7 items(item0, item1, item2...item6) in order.. like in counts = [0,2,0,5,6,0,9];

There are 3 mutually exclusive groups: group1: item0, item1, item2 group2: item3, 4, 5 group3: item6

A group is considered selected if and only if counters of the group member elements are >= 0.

Now I want to know which group is selected?

Answer 1

After clarification by understack, the OP, a group is selected if [at least] one of its elements is selected.
This in turn makes the "mutually exclusive" part of the question ambiguous, because the example supplied (counts = [0,2,0,5,6,0,9]) all 3 group would be selected...

Never the less...
The problem of identifying which group is selected can be optimally resolved by relying on on JavaScript short-circuit evaluation of boolean expressions.

A tentative solution would look like the following:

counts = [0,2,0,5,6,0,9];  // as stated an bad value for counts,
                           // if groups are to be mutually exclusive
if (counts[0] || counts[1] || counts[2])
{
   GroupSelected = 1;
}
else if (counts[3] || counts[4] || counts[5])
{
   GroupSelected = 2;
}
else if (counts[6] > 0)
{
   GroupSelected = 3;
}
else
{
   GroupSelected = -1;  //  none of the groups is selected !!!
}

Note: A possible optimization would come from a "prior" knowledge of the probabilities of a given element to be selected (relative to others, in its group), as well as the probability for a given group to be selected.
With such knowledge, the above snippet can be rewritten to first test for the most likely groups first, and within each group to test for the most likely elements first.

Answer 2

Here is a data structure to do what you want.

var DS = {
    Items: {},
    Groups: {},
    setItem: functon(index, item, group){
     this.Items[index] = item;
     if ( typeof this.Groups[group] === 'undefined' )
      this.Groups[group] = [index];
     else
      this.Groups[group].push(index);
    },
    isSelected: function(item) {
     return item >= 0;
    },
    isSelectedGroup: function(group) {
     var Group = this.Groups[group];
     for ( var i in Group ) {
      var Item = this.Items[i];
      if ( this.isSelected(Item) ) {
       return true;
      }
     }
    },
    getSelectedGroups: function(){
     var selected = [];
     for ( var group in this.Groups ) {
      var Group = this.Groups[group];
      if ( this.isSelectedGroup(Group) ) {
       selected.push(group);
      }
     }
     return selected;
    }
}

To use with your items: 0,2,0,5,6,0,9. Do the following:

DS.setItem(0,0,1);
DS.setItem(1,2,1);
DS.setItem(2,0,1);
DS.setItem(3,5,2);
DS.setItem(4,6,2);
DS.setItem(5,0,2);
DS.setItem(6,9,3);

To test:

DS.isSelectedGroup(3);
// or to get all selected groups
DS.getSelectedGroups();

Should work, if not you should be able to figure it out :)