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 Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Wrong Answer)

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Built using CHelper plug-in
 * Actual solution is at the top
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        MyInput in = new MyInput(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        CStones solver = new CStones();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class CStones {
        public void solve(int testNumber, MyInput in, PrintWriter out) {
            int n = in.nextInt();
            char[] cs = in.nextChars();

            int v1 = 0, v2 = 0;
            char[] c1 = cs.clone();
            for (int i = 0; i + 1 < n; i++) {
                if (c1[i] == '#' && c1[i + 1] == '.') {
                    v1++;
                    c1[i + 1] = '#';
                }
            }
            c1 = cs.clone();
            for (int i = n - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
                if (c1[i] == '#' && c1[i + 1] == '.') {
                    v2++;
                    c1[i] = '.';
                }
            }
            out.println(Math.min(v1, v2));
        }

    }

    static class MyInput {
        private final BufferedReader in;
        private static int pos;
        private static int readLen;
        private static final char[] buffer = new char[1024 * 8];
        private static char[] str = new char[500 * 8 * 2];
        private static boolean[] isDigit = new boolean[256];
        private static boolean[] isSpace = new boolean[256];
        private static boolean[] isLineSep = new boolean[256];

        static {
            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
                isDigit['0' + i] = true;
            }
            isDigit['-'] = true;
            isSpace[' '] = isSpace['\r'] = isSpace['\n'] = isSpace['\t'] = true;
            isLineSep['\r'] = isLineSep['\n'] = true;
        }

        public MyInput(InputStream is) {
            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
        }

        public int read() {
            if (pos >= readLen) {
                pos = 0;
                try {
                    readLen = in.read(buffer);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException();
                }
                if (readLen <= 0) {
                    throw new MyInput.EndOfFileRuntimeException();
                }
            }
            return buffer[pos++];
        }

        public int nextInt() {
            int len = 0;
            str[len++] = nextChar();
            len = reads(len, isSpace);
            int i = 0;
            int ret = 0;
            if (str[0] == '-') {
                i = 1;
            }
            for (; i < len; i++) ret = ret * 10 + str[i] - '0';
            if (str[0] == '-') {
                ret = -ret;
            }
            return ret;
        }

        public char nextChar() {
            while (true) {
                final int c = read();
                if (!isSpace[c]) {
                    return (char) c;
                }
            }
        }

        int reads(int len, boolean[] accept) {
            try {
                while (true) {
                    final int c = read();
                    if (accept[c]) {
                        break;
                    }
                    if (str.length == len) {
                        char[] rep = new char[str.length * 3 / 2];
                        System.arraycopy(str, 0, rep, 0, str.length);
                        str = rep;
                    }
                    str[len++] = (char) c;
                }
            } catch (MyInput.EndOfFileRuntimeException e) {
            }
            return len;
        }

        public char[] nextChars() {
            int len = 0;
            str[len++] = nextChar();
            len = reads(len, isSpace);
            return Arrays.copyOf(str, len);
        }

        static class EndOfFileRuntimeException extends RuntimeException {
        }

    }
}