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 Ruby (2.3.3) (judge verdict: Wrong Answer)

#input of int(split by space)
def get_i()
  return gets.chomp.split(" ").map(&:to_i)
end
#input of float(split by space)
def get_f()
  return gets.chomp.split(" ").map(&:to_f)
end
#input of string(split by space)
def get()
  return gets.chomp.split(" ")
end
#input of string(split per one character)
def get_nsp()
  return gets.chomp.split("")
end
#yes or no decision
def yn_judge(bool,y="Yes",n="No")
  return bool ? y : n 
end
#create of array
def array(size1,init=nil,size2=-1)
  if size2==-1
    return Array.new(size1){init}
  else
    return Array.new(size2){Array.new(size1){init}}
  end
end

def max(a,b)
    return a>b ? a : b
end

def min(a,b)
    return a>b ? b : a
end

INF=Float::INFINITY

N=gets.to_i
S=get_nsp
white=S.count(".")
black=S.count("#")
min=min(white,black)
cnt=0
S.each do|s|
  if s=="."
      cnt+=1
  else
      break
  end
end
min=min(min,white-cnt)
cnt=0
S.reverse.each do|s|
  if s=="."
      break
  else
      cnt+=1
  end
end
puts min(min,black-cnt)