Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There are N stones arranged in a row. Every stone is painted white or black.
A string S represents the color of the stones. The i-th stone from the left is white if the i-th character of S is ., and the stone is black if the character is #.

Takahashi wants to change the colors of some stones to black or white so that there will be no white stone immediately to the right of a black stone.
Find the minimum number of stones that needs to be recolored.

Constraints

1 \leq N \leq 2\times 10^5

S is a string of length N consisting of . and #.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
S

Output

Print the minimum number of stones that needs to be recolored.

Sample Input 1

3
#.#

Sample Output 1

1

It is enough to change the color of the first stone to white.

Sample Input 2

5
#.##.

Sample Output 2

2

Sample Input 3

9
.........

Sample Output 3

0

Solution in C++14 (GCC 5.4.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
typedef long long ll;
typedef long double ld;
typedef pair<ll, ll> l_l;
typedef pair<int , int> i_i;
typedef vector<ll> vel;
typedef vector<int> vei;
typedef vector<char> vec;
typedef vector<bool> veb;
typedef vector<string> ves;
typedef vector<vector<ll>> ve_vel;
typedef vector<vector<int>> ve_vei;
typedef vector<vector<char>> ve_vec;
typedef vector<vector<bool>> ve_veb;
typedef vector<vector<string>> ve_ves;
#define rep(i,n) for(int i=0;i<(int)(n);i++)
#define rep1(i,n) for(int i=1;i<(int)(n);i++)
#define rep2(i,n) for(int i=2;i<(int)(n);i++)
#define repk(i,k,n) for(int i=k;i<(int)(n);i++)
#define fs first
#define sc second
#define pub push_back
#define puf push_front
#define pob pop_back
#define all(a) a.begin(),a.end()
#define rall(a) a.rbegin(),a.rend()
#define maxel(a) *max_element(all(a))
#define minel(a) *min_element(all(a))
#define acc accumulate
#define EPS (1e-7)
//#define INF (1e9)
#define PI (acos(-1))
#define mod (1000000007)
typedef long long int64;
const int64 INF = 1LL << 58;
template<class T> bool chmax(T &a, const T &b) { if (a<b) { a=b; return 1; } return 0; }
template<class T> bool chmin(T &a, const T &b) { if (a>b) { a=b; return 1; } return 0; }
template<typename T> void remove(T & vector, unsigned int index){vector.erase(vector.begin() + index);}

int main(){
	cin.tie(0);
	ios::sync_with_stdio(false);

    int N; string S; cin >> N >> S;

    ll ans = INF;
    vel t(N+1,0);
    rep(i,N) {
        if(S[i] == '#') t[i+1] = t[i] + 1;
        else t[i + 1] = t[i];
    }

    rep(i,N+1) {
        ll b = t[i];
        ll w = (N  - i) - (t[N] - t[i]);
        ans = min(ans, b + w);
    }
    cout << ans << endl;
    return 0;
}