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 Java (OpenJDK 11.0.6) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.util.*; import java.io.*; import java.math.*;
public class Main{
	//Don't have to see. start------------------------------------------
	static class InputIterator{
		ArrayList<String> inputLine = new ArrayList<String>(1024);
		int index = 0; int max; String read;
		InputIterator(){
			BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
			try{
				while((read = br.readLine()) != null){
					inputLine.add(read);
				}
			}catch(IOException e){}
			max = inputLine.size();
		}
		boolean hasNext(){return (index < max);}
		String next(){
			if(hasNext()){
				return inputLine.get(index++);
			}else{
				throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException("There is no more input");
			}
		}
	}
	static HashMap<Integer, String> CONVSTR = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
	static InputIterator ii = new InputIterator();//This class cannot be used in reactive problem.
	static PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(System.out);
	static void flush(){out.flush();}
	static void myout(Object t){out.println(t);}
	static void myerr(Object t){System.err.print("debug:");System.err.println(t);}
	static String next(){return ii.next();}
	static boolean hasNext(){return ii.hasNext();}
	static int nextInt(){return Integer.parseInt(next());}
	static long nextLong(){return Long.parseLong(next());}
	static double nextDouble(){return Double.parseDouble(next());}
	static ArrayList<String> nextStrArray(){return myconv(next(), 8);}
	static ArrayList<String> nextCharArray(){return myconv(next(), 0);}
	static ArrayList<Integer> nextIntArray(){
		ArrayList<String> input = nextStrArray(); ArrayList<Integer> ret = new ArrayList<Integer>(input.size());
		for(int i = 0; i < input.size(); i++){
			ret.add(Integer.parseInt(input.get(i)));
		}
		return ret;
	}
	static ArrayList<Long> nextLongArray(){
		ArrayList<String> input = nextStrArray(); ArrayList<Long> ret = new ArrayList<Long>(input.size());
		for(int i = 0; i < input.size(); i++){
			ret.add(Long.parseLong(input.get(i)));
		}
		return ret;
	}
	static String myconv(Object list, int no){//only join
		String joinString = CONVSTR.get(no);
		if(list instanceof String[]){
			return String.join(joinString, (String[])list);
		}else if(list instanceof ArrayList){
			return String.join(joinString, (ArrayList)list);
		}else{
			throw new ClassCastException("Don't join");
		}
	}
	static ArrayList<String> myconv(String str, int no){//only split
		String splitString = CONVSTR.get(no);
		return new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(str.split(splitString)));
	}
	public static void main(String[] args){
		CONVSTR.put(8, " "); CONVSTR.put(9, "\n"); CONVSTR.put(0, "");
		solve();flush();
	}
	//Don't have to see. end------------------------------------------
	static void solve(){//Here is the main function
  int N = nextInt();
  String s = next();
  int wCount = 0;
  int[] wList = new int[N];
  int eCount = 0;
  int[] eList = new int[N];
  int output = 1000000;
  for(int i = 0; i < N; i++){
    String tmp = s.substring(i,i+1);
    if(tmp.equals("W")){
       wCount++;
    }else{
       eCount++; 
    }
    wList[i] = wCount;
  }
  for(int i = 0; i < N; i++){
    String tmp = s.substring(i,i+1);
    if(tmp.equals("E")){
       eCount--;
    }
    eList[i] = eCount;
  }
  for(int i = 0; i < N; i++){
    String tmp = s.substring(i,i+1);
    if(tmp.equals("W")){
       wList[i]--;
    }
    output = Math.min(output,wList[i] + eList[i]);
  }
  
  myout(output);
	}
	//Method addition frame start



	//Method addition frame end
}