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: Accepted)

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class Main {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		MyScanner sc = new MyScanner();
		PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(System.out);
		int N = sc.nextInt();
		char[] s = sc.next().toCharArray();
		int[] acumL = new int[N+1], acumR = new int[N+1];
		for (int i = 1; i < N + 1; i++) {
			acumL[i] = acumL[i-1] + (s[i-1] == '#'? 1 : 0);
		}
		for (int i = 1; i < N + 1; i++) {
			acumR[i] = acumR[i-1] + (s[N - i] == '.'? 1 : 0);
		}
		int ans = N;
		for (int i = 0; i < N + 1; i++) {
			ans = Math.min(ans, acumL[i] + acumR[N-i]);
		}
		out.println(ans);
		
		out.flush();
	}
	
	static class MyScanner {
		private BufferedReader br;
		private StringTokenizer tokenizer;
		
		public MyScanner() {
			br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
		}
		
		public String next() {
			while (tokenizer == null || !tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
				try {
					tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(br.readLine());
				} catch (IOException e) {
					throw new RuntimeException(e);
				}
			}
			return tokenizer.nextToken();
		}
		
		public int nextInt() {
			return Integer.parseInt(next());
		}
		
		public long nextLong() {
			return Long.parseLong(next());
		}
	}
}