Java: final string comparison does not work

Question

I have created final strings for certain commands but when I try to check if the command given by the user matches, it does not work.

These are examples of my final strings:

public static final String END = "quit";
public static final String SHOW = "print";

But if I were to use it e.g. like this:

String command = scanner.nextLine();
if (command == SHOW) {
   System.out.println("Print this line.");
}

It sees that they do not match even if they do. I tried printing the finalized variables:

System.out.println(END);

and it prints its value, but for some reason when I compare them to identical strings provided by the user, it does not recognize them.

I have tried to search similar examples and read about finalizing variables, but I think I am missing something important. I know that the problem is with the final variables and not elsewhere, because the program works if I compare these same strings with equal. E.g:

String command = scanner.nextLine();
if (command.equals("print") {
   System.out.println("Print this line.");
}

I am assuming that there is something very simple that I am doing wrong, but I could not find any answer anywhere that I would understand. I am still a beginner and all the other examples regarding similar questions include some features that I don't understand, so they don't help me to see what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

String command = scanner.nextLine();
if (command.equals(SHOW) {
   System.out.println("Print this line.");
}

Use it like this. (To answer your comment)