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: Accepted)

def inpf() a=gets.chomp.split(" ").map(&:to_f)end

def inps() a=gets.chomp.split(" ")end

def copy(a) Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(a)) end

def kaijo(n,r = 10**9+7)(n < 2)? 1 : (2..n).inject{|memo,u|memo=(memo*u)%r} end

def na(n,d=0) Array.new(n,d)end

def na2(n,m,d=0) Array.new(n){Array.new(m,d)}end

def na3(n,m,l,d=0) Array.new(n){Array.new(m){Array.new(l,d)}}end

def inp() a=gets.chomp.split(" ").map(&:to_i)end

def r_up(a, b) (a+b-1)/b end
gets
s = gets.chomp
sc = s.count(".")
kc = s.size - sc
ssc = 0
kkc = 0
ans = [sc,kc].min
s.each_char do |c|
  ssc += 1 if(c == ".")
  kkc += 1 if(c == "#")
  ans = [sc-ssc+kkc,ans].min
end
p ans
#puts ()? "Yes" : "No"
#puts ()? "YES" : "NO"
#puts ()? "yes" : "no"