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.*;
public class Main{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
        BufferedReader bf = 
            new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        int N = Integer.parseInt(bf.readLine());
        String S = bf.readLine();
        int count = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < N-1; i++){
            if(S.charAt(i) == '#'){
                if(S.charAt(i+1) == '.'){
                    count++;
                    i++;
                }
            }
        }
        System.out.println(count);
    }
}