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 Python (3.4.3) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(10**7)
INF = 10 ** 18
MOD = 10 ** 9 + 7
def POW(x, y):
    if y == 0:
        return 1
    elif y == 1:
        return x
    elif y % 2 == 0:
        return POW(x, y // 2) ** 2 % MOD
    else:
        return POW(x, y // 2) ** 2 * x % MOD
def mod_factorial(x, y): return x * POW(y, MOD - 2) % MOD
def LI(): return [int(x) for x in sys.stdin.readline().split()]
def LI_(): return [int(x) - 1 for x in sys.stdin.readline().split()]
def LF(): return [float(x) for x in sys.stdin.readline().split()]
def LS(): return sys.stdin.readline().split()
def II(): return int(sys.stdin.readline())
def SI(): return input()
from collections import Counter

def main():
    N = II()
    S = SI()
    b, w = 0, 0
    w = S.count('.')
    ans = w
    for s in S:
        if s == '.':
            w -= 1
        else:
            b += 1
        if w + b < ans:
            ans = w + b
    return ans

print(main())