How to preserve as least 1 newline between comments?

[Norlandz]

How to preserve as least 1 newline between comments?

Give:

-- comment AA


-- comment BB
-- comment CC

drop table if exists accounts;

-- comment DD

Expected output:

remove extra newlines between comments &/ statements;
but preserve at least one.

-- comment AA

-- comment BB
-- comment CC

drop table if exists accounts;

-- comment DD

Current output:

All newlines between comments &/ statements are removed.

-- comment AA
-- comment BB
-- comment CC
drop table if exists accounts;

-- comment DD

[icopp]

Any word about this one? Needing to preserve a newline is an active requirement for some tools that use "magic comments", like Atlas.

[darold]

This is not so easy to implement, I give it 2 attempts without success.