Removing dots - please help me out

From: Aristotle (qwerty97654_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: 16 Mar 2004 08:07:53 -0800

Could you please help me out with regular expressions. I'm trying to
write a perl script that proccesses some text, and i'm stuck at the
following:

need to remove from the text
1. dots followed by space & words starting with lower case letters
2. dots followed by only by words starting with lower case letters

ie

"pure text here bla bla bla. more text follows" --> changes to
"pure text here bla bla bla more text follows"

and

"pure text here bla bla bla.more text follows" --> changes to
"pure text here bla bla bla more text follows"

Need to remove just the dots, not letters.

No matter how hard i tried, i could not make it work. Tried various
things eg $line =~ s/\. (?=[a-z])/ /g; I'd really appreciate your
help, it's a must do and dont have anyone else to help out.

Thanks in advance.

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