I've got text some text with line breaks. I want to strip all line breaks, unless there are two next to each other.

Here is what I have:

Code:
$text = "This is not good,\n you know what I mean?\n\nThis should be o
+n a separate line.";
$text =~ s/[^\n]\n[^\n]//g;
print $text;

Run:
C:\Perl>perl test.pl
This is not goodyou know what I mean?

This should be on a separate line.

Should Print:
This is not good, you know what I mean?

This should be on a separate line.
[download]

The (^\n) 's (brackets linked it, so I used parentheses there) are being substituted out, too, which is not wanted. How would I get around this?

Thanks,
madhatter

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