I dont know how to go through the array over and over again pending on
my previous search so I ended up writing it like below which works.. but
looks really really
inefficient..

sub dd_fact {
     my $routename = shift;
     my $routegroupid;
     my $trunkgroupid;
     my $carriername;
     my $carrier_active;
     my $carrierid;
     AHI: for (@dat) {
        if (exists $_->{outsideroute_group_m}{route_name}
             and $_->{outsideroute_group_m}{route_name} eq "$routename") {
             $routegroupid = $_->{outsideroute_group_m}{route_group_id};
             last AHI;
        }
     }

     EWF: for (@dat) {
        if (exists $_->{outsideroute_trunk_m}{route_group_id}
             and $_->{outsideroute_trunk_m}{route_group_id} eq
"$routegroupid") {
             $trunkgroupid = $_->{outsideroute_trunk_m}{trunkgroup_id};
             last EWF;
        }
     }

     WWW: for (@dat) {
        if (exists $_->{outsideotrunkgroup_m}{trunkgroup_id}
             and $_->{outsideotrunkgroup_m}{trunkgroup_id} eq
"$trunkgroupid") {
             $carrierid = $_->{outsideotrunkgroup_m}{carrier_id};
             last WWW;
        }
     }

     for (@dat) {
        if (exists $_->{outsidecarrier_m}{carrier_id}
             and $_->{outsidecarrier_m}{carrier_id} eq "$carrierid") {
             $carriername = $_->{outsidecarrier_m}{carrier_name};
             $carrier_active = live($_->{outsidecarrier_m}{active});
             return($trunkgroupid,$carriername,$carrier_active);
        }
     }