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 Rust (1.15.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

fn solve() {
    let s = std::io::stdin();
    let mut sc = Scanner { stdin: s.lock() };
    let n: usize = sc.read();
    let ss = sc.chars();
    let n = ss.len();
    let mut black = 0;
    let mut whites = vec![0; n];
    for (idx, c) in ss.iter().enumerate() {
        if *c == '.' {
            whites[idx] += 1;
        }
        if idx >= 1 {
            whites[idx] += whites[idx - 1];
        }
    }
    let mut blacks = vec![0; n];
    for (idx, c) in ss.iter().enumerate().rev() {
        if *c == '#' {
            blacks[idx] += 1;
        }
        if idx + 1 < n {
            blacks[idx] += blacks[idx + 1];
        }
    }
    let mut result = 1 << 30;
    for idx in 0..n {
        let black = (idx + 1) - whites[idx];
        let white = if idx + 1 < n {
            let white = (n - (idx + 1)) - blacks[idx + 1];
            white
        } else {
            0
        };
        //        eprintln!("{} {} {}", idx, black, white);
        result = std::cmp::min(result, black + white);
    }
    result = std::cmp::min(result, std::cmp::min(whites[n - 1], blacks[0]));
    println!("{}", result);
}

fn main() {
    std::thread::Builder::new()
        .stack_size(64 * 1024 * 1024) // 64MB
        .spawn(|| solve())
        .unwrap()
        .join()
        .unwrap();
}
pub mod utils {
    const DYX: [(isize, isize); 8] = [
        (0, 1),   //right
        (1, 0),   //down
        (0, -1),  //left
        (-1, 0),  //top
        (1, 1),   //down right
        (-1, 1),  //top right
        (1, -1),  //down left
        (-1, -1), //top left
    ];

    pub fn try_adj(y: usize, x: usize, dir: usize, h: usize, w: usize) -> Option<(usize, usize)> {
        let ny = y as isize + DYX[dir].0;
        let nx = x as isize + DYX[dir].1;
        if ny >= 0 && nx >= 0 {
            let ny = ny as usize;
            let nx = nx as usize;
            if ny < h && nx < w {
                Some((ny, nx))
            } else {
                None
            }
        } else {
            None
        }
    }
}

//snippet from kenkoooo
pub struct Scanner<R> {
    stdin: R,
}

impl<R: std::io::Read> Scanner<R> {
    pub fn read<T: std::str::FromStr>(&mut self) -> T {
        use std::io::Read;
        let buf = self
            .stdin
            .by_ref()
            .bytes()
            .map(|b| b.unwrap())
            .skip_while(|&b| b == b' ' || b == b'\n' || b == b'\r')
            .take_while(|&b| b != b' ' && b != b'\n' && b != b'\r')
            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
        unsafe { std::str::from_utf8_unchecked(&buf) }
            .parse()
            .ok()
            .expect("Parse error.")
    }
    pub fn read_line(&mut self) -> String {
        use std::io::Read;
        let buf = self
            .stdin
            .by_ref()
            .bytes()
            .map(|b| b.unwrap())
            .skip_while(|&b| b == b'\n' || b == b'\r')
            .take_while(|&b| b != b'\n' && b != b'\r')
            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
        unsafe { std::str::from_utf8_unchecked(&buf) }
            .parse()
            .ok()
            .expect("Parse error.")
    }
    pub fn vec<T: std::str::FromStr>(&mut self, n: usize) -> Vec<T> {
        (0..n).map(|_| self.read()).collect()
    }

    pub fn chars(&mut self) -> Vec<char> {
        self.read::<String>().chars().collect()
    }
}