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)

//! ----------------------------------------------
//! Framework <https://github.com/vain0x/procon>
//!
//! See the bottom of file for solution.
//! ----------------------------------------------

#![allow(unused_imports)]
#![allow(non_snake_case)]

use std::cell::RefCell;
use std::cmp::{max, min, Ordering};
use std::collections::*;
use std::fmt::{Debug, Display, Formatter, Write as FmtWrite};
use std::io::{stderr, stdin, BufRead, Write};
use std::mem::{replace, swap};
use std::ops::*;
use std::rc::Rc;

/// Print values to standard error if debug mode.
#[allow(unused_macros)]
macro_rules! debug {
    ($($e:expr),*) => {
        #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
        $({
            let (e, mut err) = (stringify!($e), stderr());
            writeln!(err, "\x1B[33m{}\x1B[0m = {:?}", e, $e).unwrap()
        })*
    };
}

/// Read from standard input and parse each word.
/// - `read!(T, U, ..)` parses a line as a tuple of words.
/// - `read![[T]]` parses a line as an array of words.
/// - `read![..; N]` parses `N` lines, using `read!(..)` repeatedly.
#[allow(unused_macros)]
macro_rules! read {
    ([$t:ty] ; $n:expr) =>
        ((0..$n).map(|_| read!([$t])).collect::<Vec<_>>());
    ($($t:ty),+ ; $n:expr) =>
        ((0..$n).map(|_| read!($($t),+)).collect::<Vec<_>>());
    ([$t:ty]) =>
        (rl().split_whitespace().map(|w| w.parse().unwrap()).collect::<Vec<$t>>());
    ($($t:ty),*) => {{
        let buf = rl();
        let mut w = buf.split_whitespace();
        ($(w.next().unwrap().parse::<$t>().unwrap()),*)
    }};
}

/// Read a line from standard input.
#[allow(dead_code)]
fn rl() -> String {
    let mut buf = String::new();
    stdin().read_line(&mut buf).unwrap();

    #[allow(deprecated)]
    buf.trim_right().to_owned()
}

// -----------------------------------------------
// Solution
// -----------------------------------------------

fn main() {
    let N = read!(usize);
    let S = rl().chars().collect::<Vec<_>>();

    // 境界
    let mut k = 0;
    // 境界より左側にある黒の個数
    let mut left_black = 0;
    // 境界より右側にある白の個数
    let mut right_white = S.iter().filter(|&&c| c == '.').count();

    let mut min_cost = N;

    while k <= N {
        min_cost = min(min_cost, left_black + right_white);

        // 境界を右に動かす。
        if k < N && S[k] == '#' {
            left_black += 1;
        }
        if k < N && S[k] == '.' {
            right_white -= 1;
        }
        k += 1;
    }

    println!("{}", min_cost)
}