Re^4: One liner is returning unexpected "1" on the output and I do not understand the mechanism at play.

Yes it is. They asked to "print line with no leading space" instead of "1".

This can be achieved by replacing

print s/^\s+//, ...;   # This is printing 1
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with

print s/^\s+//r, ...;
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