Can we return a char in the main function in C?

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Yes you can.if the return type of main function is int or char in both case you can return either int or char.both are acceptable.
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We have two types of arguments in c main function argc means argument counter and argv means argument vector which shows that we can have both type of arguments in it..counter counts the number of arguments and vector denotes the character type arguments of value in c .. Void main () here void denotes...
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We have two types of arguments in c main function argc means argument counter and argv means argument vector which shows that we can have both type of arguments in it..counter counts the number of arguments and vector denotes the character type arguments of value in c .. Void main () here void denotes that we can return any type of variable easily ghar int anything... Char main () this shows only character type if value will be returned.. read less
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Yes, we can return a char in the main() function by using char main().
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Yes. But you have to declared the functions return type as character.
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