How to check whether a list is a subset of another list [duplicate]

Question

list1:[1,2,3,4,5]
list2:[1,2,3]

How to check if list2 is a subset of list1? I tried containsAll() but it gives true as long as the elements in list 2 are present in list1. I want the same order as criteria and not just the elements.

Answer 1

Use this:

boolean contains(List<?> list, List<?> sublist) {
    return Collections.indexOfSubList(list, sublist) != -1;
}

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#indexOfSubList(java.util.List,%20java.util.List)