int variable in class suddenly changing?

[kingkush]

I'm writing a function and in the function i am trying to give numbers to each card from lowest (0) to highest (numPlayers-1) to determine who starts the game however the turn number is suddenly change when I'm checking to see what they are in main. In the function itself i printed out the turn number with no issues but my compiler tells me the turn number is 477760 but I have no idea why its doing this.

This is the function in question:

void determineLowestCard(Player& p1, Player& p2, Player& p3)
{
    std::vector<Player> playerVect;
    playerVect.push_back(p1);
    playerVect.push_back(p2);
    playerVect.push_back(p3);
    
    // < overloaded so this works fine
    std::sort(playerVect.begin(), playerVect.end());
    
    for (int i = 0; i < playerVect.size(); i++)
    {
        playerVect[i].turnNumber = i;
        std::cout << playerVect[i].playerName << " ";
        std::cout << playerVect[i].lowestCard.suit << " : " << playerVect[i].lowestCard.cardNum << std::endl;
        std::cout << playerVect[i].turnNumber << std::endl;
    }

}

[Zhuge]

You change the turnNumbers of Player objects in playerVect; that vector is destroyed when the function returns, along with its contents. The Players p1, p2, and p3 you pass in are not changed by this function.

[kingkush]

I can't believe I didn't see that. Thank you soooo much for your help! I was totally stumped lol