Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There are N people standing in a row from west to east.
Each person is facing east or west.
The directions of the people is given as a string S of length N.
The i-th person from the west is facing east if S_i = E, and west if S_i = W.

You will appoint one of the N people as the leader, then command the rest of them to face in the direction of the leader.
Here, we do not care which direction the leader is facing.

The people in the row hate to change their directions, so you would like to select the leader so that the number of people who have to change their directions is minimized.
Find the minimum number of people who have to change their directions.

Constraints

2 \leq N \leq 3 \times 10^5

|S| = N

S_i is E or W.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
S

Output

Print the minimum number of people who have to change their directions.

Sample Input 1

5
WEEWW

Sample Output 1

1

Assume that we appoint the third person from the west as the leader.
Then, the first person from the west needs to face east and has to turn around.
The other people do not need to change their directions, so the number of people who have to change their directions is 1 in this case.
It is not possible to have 0 people who have to change their directions, so the answer is 1.

Sample Input 2

12
WEWEWEEEWWWE

Sample Output 2

4

Sample Input 3

8
WWWWWEEE

Sample Output 3

3

Solution in C# (Mono 4.6.2.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;
using System.Numerics;


#if DEBUG
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
#endif

namespace competitive_programming
{
    public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
#if DEBUG
            var scanner = new IO.StreamScanner(File.Open("input.txt", FileMode.Open));
#else
            var scanner = new IO.StreamScanner(Console.OpenStandardInput());
#endif

            var n = scanner.Integer();
            var s = scanner.ScanLine();

            var left = new int[n];
            var right = new int[n];

            var wk = 0;
            for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
            {
                if (s[i] == 'W') wk++;
                left[i] = wk;
            }

            wk = 0;
            for(int i=n-1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                if (s[i] == 'E') wk++;
                right[i] = wk;
            }

            var ans = 0;
            var minVal = int.MaxValue;

            for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
            {
                var val = (i == 0 ? 0 : left[i - 1]) + (i == n - 1 ? 0 : right[i + 1]);
                if(val < minVal)
                {
                    minVal = val;
                }
            }
            IO.Printer.Out.WriteLine(minVal);

            IO.Printer.Out.Flush();
        }
    }
}

#if DEBUG
#endif

#region INOUT

namespace IO
{
    using System.IO;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Globalization;

    public class Printer : StreamWriter
    {
        static Printer()
        {
            Out = new Printer(Console.OpenStandardOutput()) { AutoFlush = false };
        }

        public static Printer Out { get; set; }

        public override IFormatProvider FormatProvider
        {
            get { return CultureInfo.InvariantCulture; }
        }

        public Printer(Stream stream)
            : base(stream, new UTF8Encoding(false, true))
        {
        }

        public Printer(Stream stream, Encoding encoding)
            : base(stream, encoding)
        {
        }

        public void Write<T>(string format, T[] source)
        {
            base.Write(format, source.OfType<object>().ToArray());
        }

        public void WriteLine<T>(string format, T[] source)
        {
            base.WriteLine(format, source.OfType<object>().ToArray());
        }
    }

    public class StreamScanner
    {
        public StreamScanner(Stream stream)
        {
            str = stream;
        }

        public readonly Stream str;
        private readonly byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        private int len, ptr;
        public bool isEof;

        public bool IsEndOfStream
        {
            get { return isEof; }
        }

        private byte read()
        {
            if (isEof) return 0;
            if (ptr < len) return buf[ptr++];
            ptr = 0;
            if ((len = str.Read(buf, 0, 1024)) > 0) return buf[ptr++];
            isEof = true;
            return 0;
        }

        public char Char()
        {
            byte b;
            do b = read(); while ((b < 33 || 126 < b) && !isEof);
            return (char)b;
        }

        public string Scan()
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (var b = Char(); b >= 33 && b <= 126; b = (char)read())
                sb.Append(b);
            return sb.ToString();
        }

        public string ScanLine()
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (var b = Char(); b != '\n'; b = (char)read())
                if (b == 0) break;
                else if (b != '\r') sb.Append(b);
            return sb.ToString();
        }

        public long Long()
        {
            if (isEof) return long.MinValue;
            long ret = 0;
            byte b;
            var ng = false;
            do b = read(); while (b != 0 && b != '-' && (b < '0' || '9' < b));
            if (b == 0) return long.MinValue;
            if (b == '-')
            {
                ng = true;
                b = read();
            }
            for (; ; b = read())
            {
                if (b < '0' || '9' < b)
                    return ng ? -ret : ret;
                ret = ret * 10 + b - '0';
            }
        }

        public int Integer()
        {
            return (isEof) ? int.MinValue : (int)Long();
        }

        public double Double()
        {
            var s = Scan();
            return s != "" ? double.Parse(s, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) : double.NaN;
        }

        static T[] enumerate<T>(int n, Func<T> f)
        {
            var a = new T[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) a[i] = f();
            return a;
        }

        public char[] Char(int n)
        {
            return enumerate(n, Char);
        }

        public string[] Scan(int n)
        {
            return enumerate(n, Scan);
        }

        public double[] Double(int n)
        {
            return enumerate(n, Double);
        }

        public int[] Integer(int n)
        {
            return enumerate(n, Integer);
        }

        public long[] Long(int n)
        {
            return enumerate(n, Long);
        }
    }
}

    #endregion