== operator not working inside If statement (JavaScript)

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I have a JavaScript array called splitstatus which takes data from a variable called "status". splitStatus[0] and splitStatus[1] contains text inside it .

I doubled checked it by using console.log

let splitStatus=status.split('\n')
for(let i=0;i<splitStatus.length;i++){
  console.log(splitStatus[0]); // shows output  HI THERE
  console.log(splitStatus[1]); // shows output  HELLO WORLD 
 
}

The code above is working as i expected, as splitStatus[0] has ‘HI THERE’ stored inside and splitStatus[1] has ‘HELLO WORLD’ inside.

ISSUE: "if condition" doesn’t work with the "==" operator as shown below

if (splitStatus[0]==' HI THERE '){
   
//my code

  }

when i put just "=" it works, but i want to put "==". Can someone tell me what im doing wrong. Thanks a lot for reading.

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