Bucket/Radix Sort with Vectors Broken!

I have this bucket/radix sort i'm hacking away at and i can't make it work at all. I am trying to implement the algorithm to sort it in ascending order from A through Z for words in a struct. I'm honestly stuck!

Code:

//the struct
struct Wrd {
	int wordCounter;				//number of times a word exists
	string theword;                                   //the actual word
};

//the sort
void bucketSort(vector<Wrd>& V, int start, int stop, int pos){
    int i, j, k, index;
    vector<Wrd> buckets (27);
    // bin 26 is reserved for strings shorter than the current length

    // push all of the V into the right bins
    for(start = 0; start < stop; start++){
         if(V[i].theword.size() <= pos){
	     buckets[26].push_back(V[i].theword);
	 } else {
	     index = int(V[i].theword[pos] -'a');
             buckets[index].push_back(V[i].theword);
	 }
    }

    // take them out of the bins and put them back into the list
    j = 0;
    for(i = 0;i <= 26; i++) {
        for(k = buckets[start]; k! = buckets[stop]; k++) {
	    V[j].theword = *k;
	    j++;
	}
    }
}

//the call
         bubbleSort(V, 0, size);

Code:

typedef struct{

     int wordCounter;
     string theWord;

}Wrd;

[NOTE] Your original version was correct on the definition of the struct, just my bias to declare structs in the manner mentioned above (its a carry over from c)

also, why are you passing start to the function when you immediately set it to zero in the loop (it doesn't matter what you pass to the function with your definition, so why not create it as a local variable?)


you have also declared k as type int, however buckets is a vector of Wrd objects, so accesing the ith element returns type Wrd, not int.

Code:

typedef struct{

     int wordCounter;
     string theWord;

}Wrd;

That isn't necessary in C++. TheSpoiledMilk's version was correct.