I need some help. Please bear with me, my perl knowledge is very limited. I have a snippet from a text file. I need to combine the multiple lines that are between the timestamps into one line. 
05/06/08 04:25:51 node2.mydomain.com not up for SNMP
Deferring SNMP of ifOperStatus.89 on
node2.mydomain.com 180 minutes (3.00 hours).  Consecutive deferral #36
+.
Run 'snmpcollect -C node1.mydomain.com' to retry sooner.
05/06/08 04:25:51 node3.mydomain.com not in topology database (Request
+ed object is unknown),
but trying anyway.  Assuming node is up, SNMP is supported,
sysObjectID and collection filter match.
05/06/08 04:25:51 node2.mydomain.com not in topology database (Request
+ed object is unknown),
but trying anyway.  Assuming node is up, SNMP is supported,
sysObjectID and collection filter match.
05/06/08 04:25:51 node4.mydomain.com not in topology database (Request
+ed object is unknown),
05/06/08 05:07:53 node4.mydomain.com not in topology database (Request
+ed object is unknown),
but trying anyway.  Assuming node is up, SNMP is supported,
sysObjectID and collection filter match.

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I would like it to look more like this... 
05/06/08 04:25:51 node2.mydomain.com not up for SNMP Deferring SNMP of
+ ifOperStatus.89 on node2.mydomain.com 180 minutes (3.00 hours).  Con
+secutive deferral #36. Run 'snmpcollect -C node1.mydomain.com' to ret
+ry sooner.
05/06/08 04:25:51 node3.mydomain.com not in topology database (Request
+ed object is unknown),but trying anyway.  Assuming node is up, SNMP i
+s supported,sysObjectID and collection filter match.
05/06/08 04:25:51 node2.mydomain.com not in topology database (Request
+ed object is unknown),but trying anyway.  Assuming node is up, SNMP i
+s supported,sysObjectID and collection filter match.
05/06/08 04:25:51 node4.mydomain.com not in topology database (Request
+ed object is unknown),
05/06/08 05:07:53 node4.mydomain.com not in topology database (Request
+ed object is unknown),but trying anyway.  Assuming node is up, SNMP i
+s supported,sysObjectID and collection filter match.

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Any suggestions as to how I can do this?
Thank you very much
JB

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