General Pointer issue

I've tried the following:

std::string* Member::GetName()
{
    std::string name2 = "sdfsdfsd";
    return &name2;
}

std::string* name;
Member m;

name = m.GetName();

std::cout << *name  << std::endl;

and it "works", but shouldn't be name2 unavailable after GetName() is called? and my pointer points to nothing?

Edit:

Coming back after years with more exp. some already answered this question below.

Returning a local is bad!, you might get away with it, if the value on the stack didn't get overwritten, so often when you directly use it after returning a local you might get the correct values, but this is still undefined behaviour. Also not returning a const& also doesn't work, even now sometimes i think it binds the return value to a temporary as it does for const& parameters, but thats not the case for return types, the same goes for returning r-values refs. you can only return a copy and get it as const ref like this

std::string GetName();

const std::string& name  = GetName();

this will bind it to a temporary therefore is valid check herb sutters gotw: https://herbsutter.com/2008/01/01/gotw-88-a-candidate-for-the-most-important-const/ for const ref temporaries.