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# (Mono 4.6.2.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

using  System;

public class Program
{
    private int N;
    private string S;

    public void Solve()
    {
        var sc = new Scanner();
        N = sc.NextInt();
        S = sc.Next();
        var sum = new int[N + 1];
        sum[0] = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
        {
            if (S[i] == '#')
            {
                sum[i + 1] = sum[i] + 1;
            }
            else
            {
                sum[i + 1] = sum[i];
            }
        }

        int ans = int.MaxValue;

        for (int i = 0; i <= N; i++)
        {
            int leftBlack = sum[i];
            int rightBlack = sum[N] - sum[i];
            int rightWhite = (N - i) - rightBlack;
            ans = Math.Min(ans, rightWhite + leftBlack);
        }
        Console.WriteLine(ans);
    }

    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        new Program().Solve();
    }
}

class Scanner
{
    public Scanner()
    {
        _pos = 0;
        _line = new string[0];
    }

    const char Separator = ' ';
    private int _pos;
    private string[] _line;

    #region スペース区切りで取得

    public string Next()
    {
        if (_pos >= _line.Length)
        {
            _line = Console.ReadLine().Split(Separator);
            _pos = 0;
        }

        return _line[_pos++];
    }

    public int NextInt()
    {
        return int.Parse(Next());
    }

    public long NextLong()
    {
        return long.Parse(Next());
    }

    public double NextDouble()
    {
        return double.Parse(Next());
    }

    #endregion

    #region 型変換

    private int[] ToIntArray(string[] array)
    {
        var result = new int[array.Length];
        for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
        {
            result[i] = int.Parse(array[i]);
        }

        return result;
    }

    private long[] ToLongArray(string[] array)
    {
        var result = new long[array.Length];
        for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
        {
            result[i] = long.Parse(array[i]);
        }

        return result;
    }

    private double[] ToDoubleArray(string[] array)
    {
        var result = new double[array.Length];
        for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
        {
            result[i] = double.Parse(array[i]);
        }

        return result;
    }

    #endregion

    #region 配列取得

    public string[] Array()
    {
        if (_pos >= _line.Length)
            _line = Console.ReadLine().Split(Separator);

        _pos = _line.Length;
        return _line;
    }

    public int[] IntArray()
    {
        return ToIntArray(Array());
    }

    public long[] LongArray()
    {
        return ToLongArray(Array());
    }

    public double[] DoubleArray()
    {
        return ToDoubleArray(Array());
    }

    #endregion
}