perl parentheses in regular expression

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I have been trying several regular expressions

$str =~ s/^0+(.)/$1/;

converts 0000 to 0 and 0001 to 1

$str =~ s/^0+./$1/;

converts 0000 to empty string, 000100 to 00, 0001100 to 100.

what difference is the parentheses making?

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