blessed object containing reference to hash

[arcnon]

I want to alter the %find in my constructor from a accessor method.

package Excel::Tabbed;
use strict;

use Exporter();
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw(connect);
our $VERSION = 1.00; 

# ie new constructor 
sub connect{
	my $class = $_[0];
    
    if (-e "$_[1]"){ 
    
    	my %find;
		my $object = {
			connect => $_[1],
			prepare => '',
			select => '',
			where => \%find,
			column => '',
			records => '',
		};
                   
		bless $object, $class;
		return $object; 
	}
	else{
		die "file: $_[1] doesn't reside at path\n";
	}            
}

how do I add elements to the find hash? I thought:

....
my ($self,$args) = @_;
my $find = $self->{where};			
${find}->{name} = 'test';

am I going about this the wrong way?
thanks