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.*;
import java.util.*;
 
 
public class Main implements Runnable {
 
  public static final int MOD = 1000000007;

  public void run() {
    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
    int n = scanner.nextInt();
    String s = scanner.next();

    int[] rr = new int[n];
    int[] ll = new int[n];

    int w = 0;
    for (int i = 0 ; i < n ; i ++) {
      char c = s.charAt(i);
      if (c == 'W') {
        w ++;
      }
      ll[i] = w;
    }
    
    int e = 0;
    for (int i = n - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i --) {
      char c = s.charAt(i);
      if (c == 'E') {
        e ++;
      }
      rr[i] = e;
    }

    int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    for (int i = 0 ; i < n ; i ++) {
      int l = (i == 0) ? 0 : ll[i - 1];
      int r = (i == n - 1) ? 0 : rr[i + 1];
      if (min > l + r) {
        min = l + r;
      }
    } 
    System.out.println(min);

  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Main main = new Main();
    main.run();
  }
 
  // scanner slightly faster than usual ones
  public static class BetterScanner {
 
    private InputStream stream;
    private byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    private int pointer = 0;
    private int bufferLength = 0;
 
    public BetterScanner(InputStream stream) {
      this.stream = stream;
    }
 
    private boolean updateBuffer() {
      if (pointer >= bufferLength) {
        pointer = 0;
        try {
          bufferLength = stream.read(buffer);
        } catch (IOException exception) {
          exception.printStackTrace();
        }
        return bufferLength > 0;
      } else {
        return true;
      }
    }
 
    private int read() {
      if (updateBuffer()) {
        return buffer[pointer ++];
      } else {
        return -1;
      }
    }
 
    public boolean hasNext() {
      skipUnprintable();
      return updateBuffer();
    }
 
    private void skipUnprintable() { 
      while (updateBuffer() && !isPrintableChar(buffer[pointer])) {
        pointer ++;
      }
    }
 
    public String next() {
      if (hasNext()) {
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        int codePoint = read();
        while (isPrintableChar(codePoint)) {
          builder.appendCodePoint(codePoint);
          codePoint = read();
        }
        return builder.toString();
      } else {
        throw new NoSuchElementException();
      }
    }
 
    public long nextLong() {
      if (hasNext()) {
        long number = 0;
        boolean minus = false;
        int codePoint = read();
        if (codePoint == '-') {
          minus = true;
          codePoint = read();
        }
        if (codePoint >= '0' && codePoint <= '9') {
          while (true) {
            if (codePoint >= '0' && codePoint <= '9') {
              number *= 10;
              number += codePoint - '0';
            } else if (codePoint < 0 || !isPrintableChar(codePoint)) {
              return (minus) ? -number : number;
            } else {
              throw new NumberFormatException();
            }
            codePoint = read();
          }
        } else {
          throw new NumberFormatException();
        }
      } else {
        throw new NoSuchElementException();
      }
    }
 
    public int nextInt() {
      long number = nextLong();
      if (number >= Integer.MIN_VALUE && number <= Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
        return (int)number;
      } else {
        throw new NumberFormatException();
      }
    }
 
    private boolean isPrintableChar(int codePoint) {
      return codePoint >= 33 && codePoint <= 126;
    }
 
  }
 
}