Dear wise ones

Im new to objects and not that old at hashes so I thought Id
confusicate myself totally trying to make a hash of objects.
I would like to access an element from my list of objects in the following example
using its object name, so I made a hash of objects.

However Ive obviously made a mess somewhere as I keep getting
the error "Can't call method "print" on unblessed reference...

A helping hand is worth 2 in the bush

#!/apps/perl/5.8.3/bin/perl -w

use strict;

### PACKAGE ###
package Register;
sub new {
    my ($class) = @_;
    my $self = {
       _regName             => undef,
       _regID               => undef,
    };
    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}
sub regName {
    my ( $self, $regName ) = @_;
    $self->{_regName} = $regName if defined($regName);
    return $self->{_regName};
}
sub regID {
    my ( $self, $regID ) = @_;
    $self->{_regID} = $regID if defined($regID);
    return $self->{_regID};
}
sub print {
   my ($self) = @_;
   if (defined $self->regName)        { printf ("%s\n",$self->regName)
+      };
   if (defined $self->regID)          { printf ("%s\n",$self->regID)  
+      };
}
###################


my @Regs;
$Regs[0] = new Register();  
$Regs[1] = new Register();  

$Regs[0]->regName("CLKEN");    
$Regs[0]->regID("REG3456");
$Regs[1]->regName("IRQEN");    
$Regs[1]->regID("REG4444");

# I want to access the register based on regName and dont want to 
# search the array each time for my register. So make a hash as follow
+s
my %reg_hash;
foreach my $reg (@Regs) {
   $reg_hash{$reg->regName()} = [] unless exists $reg_hash{$reg->regNa
+me()};
   push @{$reg_hash{$reg->regName()}}, $reg;
}

# now to access a register object from the hash
my $curr_reg;
$curr_reg = new Register();  
$curr_reg = \$reg_hash{IRQEN};
$curr_reg->print;  # ERROR!! Can't call method "regID" on unblessed re
+ference at ./hash_of_objects.pl line 54

$curr_reg = $Regs[0];
$curr_reg->print;  # This line is ok, but seems the same to me ?

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