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 JavaScript (node.js v5.12) (judge verdict: Wrong Answer)

'use strict'
function Main(input){
  var S=input.trim().replace(/\s+/,'').split('');
  var t=false;
  var a=S.reduce(function(A,c){
    if(t)
      A+=c==='.'?1:0;
    t=t||(c==='#');
    return A;
  },0);
  
  t=false;
  var b=S.reverse().reduce(function(A,c){
    if(t)
      A+=c==='#'?1:0;
    t=t||(c==='.');
    return A;
  },0);
  var ans=Math.min(a,b);
  console.log(ans);
}

Main(require('fs').readFileSync('/dev/stdin','utf8'));