Can "main" in java return a String?

Question

Is it possible that public static void main(String[] args) in java returns String instead of void? If yes, how?

public static String main(String[] args)

instead of:

public static void main(String[] args)

when I change my code as below:

public static String main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    String str = null;
    TurkishMorphParser parser = TurkishMorphParser.createWithDefaults();
    str = new Stm(parser).parse("bizler");
    System.out.println("str = " + str);
    String replace = str.replace("[","");
    String replace1 = replace.replace("]","");
    List<String> result1 = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(replace1.split(",")));
    String result = result1.get(0);
    System.out.println("Result = " + result);
    return result;        
}

I receive this error:

Error: Main method must return a value of type void in class Stm, please define the main method as:
public static void main(String[] args)

Answer 1

In short - no, it can't. You can always print to stdout from the main method (using System.out.print or System.out.println), but you can't change the return type of main.