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 Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
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;
        FasterScanner in = new FasterScanner(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        TaskC solver = new TaskC();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class TaskC {
        public void solve(int testNumber, FasterScanner in, PrintWriter out) {
            final int n = in.nextInt();
            String s = in.next();

            int[] totalE = new int[n];
            int[] num = new int[n];
            int sumE = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                if (s.charAt(i) == 'E') {
                    sumE++;
                    if (i > 0) totalE[i] = totalE[i - 1] + 1;
                    else totalE[i] = 1;
                } else {
                    if (i > 0) totalE[i] = totalE[i - 1];
                    else totalE[i] = 0;
                }
            }

            int ans = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                int cn;
                int ce = (s.charAt(i) == 'E') ? sumE - 1 : sumE;
                if (i == 0) cn = ce;
                else cn = i - totalE[i - 1] + (ce - totalE[i - 1]);

                if (cn < ans) ans = cn;
            }

            out.println(ans);
        }

    }

    static class FasterScanner {
        private InputStream in;
        private byte[] buffer;
        private int bufPointer;
        private int bufLength;

        public FasterScanner(InputStream in) {
            this.in = in;
            buffer = new byte[1024];
        }

        private boolean hasNextByte() {
            if (bufPointer < bufLength) return true;
            bufPointer = 0;
            try {
                bufLength = in.read(buffer);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return (bufLength > 0);
        }

        private int readByte() {
            if (hasNextByte()) return buffer[bufPointer++];
            return -1;
        }

        private static boolean isPrintableChar(int c) {
            return (c >= 33 && c <= 126);
        }

        public boolean hasNext() {
            while (hasNextByte() && !isPrintableChar(buffer[bufPointer])) bufPointer++;
            return hasNextByte();
        }

        public String next() {
            if (!hasNext()) throw new NoSuchElementException();
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            int b = readByte();
            while (isPrintableChar(b)) {
                sb.appendCodePoint(b);
                b = readByte();
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }

        public int nextInt() {
            long nl = nextLong();
            if (nl < Integer.MIN_VALUE || nl > Integer.MAX_VALUE) throw new NumberFormatException();
            return (int) nl;
        }

        public long nextLong() {
            if (!hasNext()) throw new NoSuchElementException();
            long n = 0;
            boolean minus = false;
            int b = readByte();
            if (b == '-') {
                minus = true;
                b = readByte();
            }
            if (b < '0' || b > '9') throw new NumberFormatException();

            while (true) {
                if (b >= '0' && b <= '9') {
                    n *= 10;
                    n += b - '0';
                } else if (b == -1 || !isPrintableChar(b)) {
                    return minus ? -n : n;
                } else {
                    throw new NumberFormatException();
                }
                b = readByte();
            }
        }

    }
}