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;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
//using System.Numerics;  //comment out if AOJ
using System.Text;

using Problem = Tmp.Problem;
using MyIO;

#pragma warning disable   //for AOJ

namespace Tmp
{
    class Problem : IDisposable
    {
        bool IsGCJ;
        int Repeat;
        Scanner sc;
        Printer pr;
        public Problem(bool isGCJ, Scanner scanner, Printer printer)
        {
            sc = scanner;
            pr = printer;
            IsGCJ = isGCJ;
            if (isGCJ) Repeat = sc.nextInt();
            else Read();
        }
        public Problem(bool isGCJ) : this(isGCJ, new Scanner(), new Printer()) { }
        public Problem(bool isGCJ, Scanner scanner) : this(isGCJ, scanner, new Printer()) { }
        public Problem(bool isGCJ, Printer printer) : this(isGCJ, new Scanner(), printer) { }
        public void Solve()
        {
            if (IsGCJ) for (var i = 0; i < Repeat; i++) { Read(); pr.Write("Case #" + (i + 1) + ": "); SolveOne(); }
            else SolveOne();
        }
        public void Dispose()
        {
            sc.Dispose();
            pr.Dispose();
        }
        public int Size { get { return 1; } }
        public const long Mod = 1000000007;

        // 使用する変数をここに書く
        // string S;
        // int a;
        int n;
        string s;
        /// <summary>
        /// 読み込み処理をここに書く
        /// </summary>
        void Read()
        {

        }
        /// <summary>
        /// メイン処理をここに書く
        /// </summary>
        void SolveOne()
        {
            n = sc.nextInt();
            s = sc.next();
            int[] els = new int[n + 1];
            int[] wls = new int[n + 1];
            int ans = n;
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            {
                els[i + 1] = els[i];
                wls[i + 1] = wls[i];
                if(s[i]=='E')
                {
                    els[i + 1]++;
                }
                else
                {
                    wls[i + 1]++;
                }
            }
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            {
                int tmp = wls[i] + els[n] - els[i + 1];
                ans = Math.Min(ans, tmp);
            }
            Console.WriteLine(ans);
        }
    }
}
class Program
{
    //public static RandomSFMT rand = new RandomSFMT();
    public static bool IsJudgeMode = true;
    public static bool IsGCJMode = false;
    public static bool IsSolveCreated = true;
    static void Main()
    {
        if (IsJudgeMode)
            if (IsGCJMode) using (var problem = new Problem(true, new Scanner("C-large-practice.in.txt"), new Printer("output.txt"))) problem.Solve();
            else using (var problem = new Problem(false, new Printer())) problem.Solve();
        else
        {
            var num = 1;
            int size = 0;
            decimal time = 0;
            for (var tmp = 0; tmp < num; tmp++)
            {
                using (var P = IsSolveCreated ? new Problem(false, new Scanner("input.txt"), new Printer()) : new Problem(false))
                {
                    size = P.Size;
                    //time += Func.MeasureTime(() => P.Solve());
                }
            }
            Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}ms", size, time / num);
        }
    }
}

/// <summary>
/// カスタマイズしたIO
/// </summary>
namespace MyIO
{
    class Printer : IDisposable
    {
        bool isConsole;
        TextWriter file;
        public Printer() { file = new StreamWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput()) { AutoFlush = false }; isConsole = true; }
        public Printer(string path) { file = new StreamWriter(path, false) { AutoFlush = false }; isConsole = false; }
        public void Write<T>(T value) { file.Write(value); }
        public void Write(bool b) { file.Write(b ? "YES" : "NO"); }
        public void Write(string str, params object[] args) { file.Write(str, args); }
        public void WriteLine() { file.WriteLine(); }
        public void WriteLine<T>(T value) { file.WriteLine(value); }
        public void WriteLine(bool b) { file.WriteLine(b ? "YES" : "NO"); }
        public void WriteLine<T>(IEnumerable<T> list) { foreach (var x in list) file.WriteLine(x); }
        public void WriteLine<T>(List<T> list) { foreach (var x in list) file.WriteLine(x); }
        public void WriteLine<T>(T[] list) { foreach (var x in list) file.WriteLine(x); }
        public void WriteLine(string str, params object[] args) { file.WriteLine(str, args); }
        public void Dispose() { file.Flush(); if (!isConsole) file.Dispose(); }
    }
    class Scanner : IDisposable
    {
        bool isConsole;
        TextReader file;
        public Scanner() { file = Console.In; }
        public Scanner(string path) { file = new StreamReader(path); isConsole = false; }
        public void Dispose() { if (!isConsole) file.Dispose(); }

        #region next読み込み
        string[] nextBuffer = new string[0];
        int BufferCnt = 0;

        char[] cs = new char[] { ' ' };

        public string next()
        {
            while (BufferCnt >= nextBuffer.Length)
            {
                string st = file.ReadLine();
                while (st == "") st = file.ReadLine();
                nextBuffer = st.Split(cs, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                BufferCnt = 0;
            }
            return nextBuffer[BufferCnt++];
        }

        public int nextInt()
        {
            return int.Parse(next());
        }

        public long nextLong()
        {
            return long.Parse(next());
        }

        public double nextDouble()
        {
            return double.Parse(next());
        }

        private 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 string[] next(int n) { return enumerate(n, next); }
        public double[] nextDouble(int n) { return enumerate(n, nextDouble); }
        public int[] nextInt(int n) { return enumerate(n, nextInt); }
        public long[] nextLong(int n) { return enumerate(n, nextLong); }
        #endregion
    }
}