I’m tryng to code a binary search method and it’s working properly but in more steps than expected.
I found that an if statement in while loop isn’t working even when the condition is printed, it’s true.

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int element = 47;
        int[] array = {1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 47, 67, 879, 12345, 3463457, 367847884};
        System.out.println(
                (binarySearch(array, element) != -1) ?
                ("Element found at index: " + binarySearch(array, element)) :
                "Element not found"
        );
    }

    public static int binarySearch(int[] array, int target) {
        int left = 0;
        int right = array.length - 1;

        while (left <= right) {
            int mid = left + (right - left) / 2;
            System.out.println(array[mid]);
            System.out.println(target);
            System.out.println(target==array[mid]);
            System.out.println();
            if (target == array[mid]) {     //this isn't working
                return mid;                 
            }                               
            if (array[mid] < target) {
                left = mid + 1;
            } else {
                right = mid - 1;
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }
}

and the console:

12
47
false

879
47
false

47
47
true

12
47
false

879
47
false

47
47
true

Element found at index: 8

Process finished with exit code 0

in step 3 Referring to the console, value of target and array[mid] are the same.
why if (array[mid] < target) {left = mid + 1;} isn’t working?