What is the error in checking the value?

Question

Java

Hello. How is it that the break command is not executed?
This is when debugging a specific line

And this is the next step of the cycle
It is not quite visible on the screenshot, break comes after the if

Answer 1

I haven't written in java for a long time, but something tells me that strings cannot be compared through the == operation. It is necessary through the equals method. The thing is that the strings can be the same, but they are represented by different objects in memory. The == operator will return false if the objects are different, even if they have the same content.

Answer 2

strings are compared using equals