Fat problem with Ifstream on a member string!

[jetkeynature]

Im about to program a game with a CPlayer class.
It looks like this:

#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

 class CPlayer{
friend class CGame;
private:
string m_name;
//and the rest is irrelevant
}

Now, ive got another class named CGame, with the member function

loadplayer()

So:

class CGame{
private:
ofstream m_out;
ifstream m_in;

public:
void loadplayer(CPlayer* player){
m_in.open("savegame.sav", ios::binary);
m_in.read((char*) &(player->m_name), sizeof(player->m_name);
m_in.close();
cout << player -> m_name;
}
//there is also a saveplayer func which only writes the name into a file with the same way as above.

//the rest is irrelevant
}

and now, when i call the loadplayer func he sends instead of the name simply the char 'G'
I dunno why especially this letter or why itndoesnt show the right string.
Pls help me im about to get dizzy.

[TwilightSpectre]

Here a few articles to read:

http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/DzywvCM9/
http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/oyhv0pDG/

[tipaye]

You've made some odd assumptions about what's relevant and what's not. Context can make quite a difference in these matters.

For example we don't see where m_name is being initialised, so when you do
m_in.read((char*) &(player->m_name), sizeof(player->m_name);
What exactly is the size of m_name? How many characters will be read from the file?
In that case, why not something like getline(m_in, player->m_name);?

[tipaye]

BTW, you're missing a closing parenthesis in line 9