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 Haskell (GHC 7.10.3) (judge verdict: Accepted)

{-# LANGUAGE
  ScopedTypeVariables, BangPatterns, TupleSections, ExplicitForAll,
  LambdaCase, MultiWayIf, Unsafe, RecordWildCards, FlexibleContexts, CPP,
  NoMonomorphismRestriction, GADTs, PatternGuards,
  RankNTypes, EmptyDataDecls, EmptyCase, ViewPatterns #-}


import Data.Bits
import Data.List
import Data.Maybe
import Data.Tuple
import Data.Ord
import Data.Int
import Data.Word
import Data.Char
import Data.Function
import Data.STRef
import Data.IORef
import Data.Monoid
import Data.Functor
import System.IO
import Control.Arrow
import Control.Applicative
import Control.Monad
import Control.Monad.Primitive
import Control.Monad.State.Strict
import Control.Monad.ST
import Control.Monad.ST.Lazy (strictToLazyST, lazyToStrictST)
import qualified Control.Monad.ST.Lazy as STL
-- import Control.Monad.ST.Safe
import Control.DeepSeq
import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BS
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as BSL
import qualified Data.ByteString.Builder as BSB
import Data.IntMap (IntMap)
import qualified Data.IntMap.Strict as IMS
import qualified Data.IntMap.Lazy as IML
import Data.IntSet (IntSet)
import qualified Data.IntSet as IS
import qualified Data.Sequence as Seq
import Data.Sequence (Seq)
import qualified Data.Array.IArray as A
import qualified Data.Array.MArray.Safe as A
import qualified Data.Array.MArray as A
import Data.Array (Array)
import Data.Array.Unboxed (UArray)
import Data.Array.IArray (IArray)
import Data.Array.MArray.Safe (MArray)
import Data.Array.IO.Safe (IOArray, IOUArray)
import Data.Array.ST.Safe (STArray, STUArray, runSTArray, runSTUArray)
import qualified Data.Vector as V
import qualified Data.Vector.Mutable as VM
import qualified Data.Vector.Unboxed as VU
import qualified Data.Vector.Unboxed.Mutable as VUM
import qualified Data.Vector.Primitive as VP
import qualified Data.Vector.Primitive.Mutable as VPM
import qualified Data.Vector.Generic as VG
import qualified Data.Vector.Generic.Mutable as VGM

main :: IO ()
main = do
  n <- readInt <$> getLine
  s <- BS.getLine
  let bcnt = BS.count '.' s
  print $ (\(!prev_,!max) -> max)
    $ BS.foldl'
    (\ (!prev, !maxAns) !c ->
       let !now = if c == '.' then prev - 1 else prev + 1
           !nextMax = maxAns `min` now
       in (now, nextMax))
    (bcnt,bcnt) s

rInt :: StateT BSL.ByteString Maybe Int
rInt = StateT $ BSL.readInt . BSL.dropWhile (<'!')
rIntS :: StateT BS.ByteString Maybe Int
rIntS = StateT $ BS.readInt . BS.dropWhile (<'!')

#define D(f,r,d) f::Integral a=>a->d;f=fromIntegral;r::String->d;r=read
#define C(f,r,g,h,d) D(f,r,d);g,h::RealFrac a=>a->d;g=floor;h=ceiling
C(_toInteger_,readInteger,floorInteger,ceilInteger,Integer)
C(toInt,readInt,floorInt,ceilInt,Int)
C(toI8,readI8,floorI8,ceilI8,Int8)
C(toI16,readI16,floorI16,ceilI16,Int16)
C(toI32,readI32,floorI32,ceilI32,Int32)
C(toI64,readI64,floorI64,ceilI64,Int64)
C(toWord,readWord,floorWord,ceilWord,Word)
C(toW8,readW8,floorW8,ceilW8,Word8)
C(toW16,readW16,floorW16,ceilW16,Word16)
C(toW32,readW32,floorW32,ceilW32,Word32)
C(toW64,readW64,floorW64,ceilW64,Word64)
D(toDouble,readDouble,Double)
D(toFloat,readFloat,Float)
#undef D
#undef C

{-# INLINE wrA #-}
wrA = A.writeArray
{-# INLINE rdA #-}
rdA = A.readArray
{-# INLINE mdA #-}
mdA arr f i = do
  ai <- rdA arr i
  let fai = f ai 
  wrA arr i fai
  return (ai,fai)
{-# INLINE mdA' #-}
mdA' arr f i = do
  !ai <- rdA arr i
  let !fai = f ai
  wrA arr i fai
  return (ai,fai)
{-# INLINE swapA #-}
swapA arr i j = do
  ai <- rdA arr i
  wrA arr i =<< rdA arr j
  wrA arr j ai

#define N(f,g,a,m)\
  f :: forall e i s. (C(a,m)A.Ix i) => (i,i) -> e -> m (a i e); f=A.newArray;\
  g :: forall e i s. (C(a,m)A.Ix i) => (i,i) -> m (a i e); g=A.newArray_
#define C(a,m)
N(newIOA,newIOA_,IOArray,IO)
N(newSTA,newSTA_,STArray s,ST s)
#undef C
#define C(a,m) MArray (a) e (m), 
N(newIOUA,newIOUA_,IOUArray,IO)
N(newSTUA,newSTUA_,STUArray s,ST s)
#undef C
#undef N