What is the difference between a member variable and a local variable?

Question

What is the difference between a member variable and a local variable?

Are they the same?

Answer 1

A local variable is the variable you declare in a function.Its lifespan is on that Function only.

A member variable is the variable you declare in a class definition.Its lifespan is inside that class only.It is Global Variable.It can be access by any function inside that same class.