Strangest Error yet!!

[bugzpodder]

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for (int i=0;i<1;i++){
	Client s(44,"Mike","Brown","333333");
	ofstream fout("test.bin",ios::binary);
	fout.write((char *) (&s),sizeof(Client));
	fout.flush();
	fout.close();
	}
	Client s2;
	ifstream fin("test.bin",ios::binary);
	fin.read((char *) (&s2),sizeof(Client));
	cout<<s2.display()<<endl;
	fin.close();

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	Client s(44,"Mike","Brown","333333");
	ofstream fout("test.bin",ios::binary);
	fout.write((char *) (&s),sizeof(Client));
	fout.flush();
	fout.close();

	Client s2;
	ifstream fin("test.bin",ios::binary);
	fin.read((char *) (&s2),sizeof(Client));
	cout<<s2.display()<<endl;
	fin.close();

the first piece of code crashes
after deleting the for loop, the second piece of code runs with no problems. it must be some error caused by the local variable Client s (if you delcare it outside the for loop it works fine)
why is it happening??
and suppose i want to delcare it inside the for loop, how do i fix it??

[bugzpodder]

ok I know why it crashes now. i used strings in the clients and it only dumps the pointer to the string (C++ basic_string) to the file. hence if we declare the class inside the for loop and exits, only the pointer is saved, and that explains why all the numbers are correct and the strings are incorrect

so is there a way to dump basic_string in the file?