Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There are N people standing in a row from west to east.
Each person is facing east or west.
The directions of the people is given as a string S of length N.
The i-th person from the west is facing east if S_i = E, and west if S_i = W.

You will appoint one of the N people as the leader, then command the rest of them to face in the direction of the leader.
Here, we do not care which direction the leader is facing.

The people in the row hate to change their directions, so you would like to select the leader so that the number of people who have to change their directions is minimized.
Find the minimum number of people who have to change their directions.

Constraints

2 \leq N \leq 3 \times 10^5

|S| = N

S_i is E or W.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
S

Output

Print the minimum number of people who have to change their directions.

Sample Input 1

5
WEEWW

Sample Output 1

1

Assume that we appoint the third person from the west as the leader.
Then, the first person from the west needs to face east and has to turn around.
The other people do not need to change their directions, so the number of people who have to change their directions is 1 in this case.
It is not possible to have 0 people who have to change their directions, so the answer is 1.

Sample Input 2

12
WEWEWEEEWWWE

Sample Output 2

4

Sample Input 3

8
WWWWWEEE

Sample Output 3

3

Solution in Rust (1.15.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

#![allow(unused_imports, unused_macros, dead_code)]
use std::f64::*;
use std::cmp::*;
use std::collections::*;

macro_rules! dump{
    ($($a:expr),*) => {
        #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
        eprintln!(
            concat!("{}:{}:{}: ",$(stringify!($a), " = {:?}, "),*),
            file!(), line!(), column!(), $($a),*
        );
        #[cfg(not(debug_assertions))]
        {};
    }
}

const INF: i64 = 0x3f3f3f3f3f3f3f3f;
const MOD: i64 = 1000000007;
const NOTHING: usize = std::usize::MAX;
const DX: [usize; 4] = [1, 0, std::usize::MAX, 0];
const DY: [usize; 4] = [0, 1, 0, std::usize::MAX];

fn solve<R: std::io::Read, W: std::io::Write>(io: &mut IO<R, W>) {
    let n: usize = io.read();
    let cs: Vec<char> = io.reads(n);
    let mut e = 0;
    let mut w = 0;
    for i in 0..n {
        if cs[i] == 'E' {
            e += 1;
        }
    }


    let mut res = n;

    for i in 0..n {
        if cs[i] == 'E' {
            e -= 1;
            res = min(res, e + w);
        } else {
            res = min(res, e + w);
            w += 1;
        }
    }
    io.writeln(res);
}

fn main() {
    use std::io::*;
    std::thread::Builder::new()
        .stack_size(32 * 1024 * 1024)
        .spawn(|| {
            let stdin = stdin();
            let stdin = BufReader::new(stdin.lock());
            let stdout = stdout();
            let stdout = BufWriter::new(stdout.lock());
            let mut io = IO::new(stdin, stdout);
            solve(&mut io);
            io.flush();
        })
        .unwrap()
        .join()
        .unwrap();
}

pub struct IO<R, W> {
    reader: std::io::Bytes<R>,
    writer: W,
}

impl<R: std::io::Read, W: std::io::Write> IO<R, W> {
    pub fn new(r: R, w: W) -> IO<R, W> {
        IO {
            reader: r.bytes(),
            writer: w,
        }
    }

    pub fn read<T: Read>(&mut self) -> T {
        T::read(&mut self.reader)
    }

    pub fn reads<T: Read>(&mut self, n: usize) -> Vec<T> {
        (0..n).map(|_| T::read(&mut self.reader)).collect()
    }

    pub fn write<T: std::fmt::Display>(&mut self, x: T) {
        self.writer.write_fmt(format_args!("{}", x)).unwrap();
    }
    pub fn writeln<T: std::fmt::Display>(&mut self, x: T) {
        self.writer.write_fmt(format_args!("{}\n", x)).unwrap();
    }

    pub fn writes<T: std::fmt::Display>(&mut self, xs: &Vec<T>, sep: &str) {
        let mut it = xs.iter();
        for &x in it.next().iter() {
            self.write(x);
        }
        for x in it {
            self.writer.write(sep.as_bytes()).unwrap();
            self.write(x);
        }
    }

    pub fn writesln<T: std::fmt::Display>(&mut self, xs: &Vec<T>, sep: &str) {
        self.writes(xs, sep);
        self.writer.write(b"\n").unwrap();
    }

    pub fn flush(&mut self) {
        self.writer.flush().unwrap()
    }
}

pub trait Read {
    fn read<R: std::io::Read>(bytes: &mut std::io::Bytes<R>) -> Self;
}

#[inline(always)]
pub fn is_whitespace(x: u8) -> bool {
    x < 33u8 || 126u8 < x
}

macro_rules! read_int_impl{
    ($($t:ty)*) => ($(
        impl Read for $t {
            fn read<R: std::io::Read>(bytes: &mut std::io::Bytes<R>) -> Self {
                let head: u8 = bytes
                    .map(|x| x.unwrap())
                    .skip_while(|&x| is_whitespace(x))
                    .next()
                    .unwrap();
                if head == 45u8 {
                    bytes.map(|x| x.unwrap())
                        .take_while(|&x| !is_whitespace(x))
                        .fold(0, |a, x| 10 * a - x as $t + 48)
                } else {
                    bytes.map(|x| x.unwrap())
                        .take_while(|&x| !is_whitespace(x))
                        .fold((head - 48) as $t, |a, x| 10 * a + x as $t - 48)
                }
            }
        }
    )*)
}
read_int_impl! { isize i8 i16 i32 i64 usize u8 u16 u32 u64}

macro_rules! read_float_impl{
    ($($t:ty)*) => ($(
        impl Read for $t {
            fn read<R: std::io::Read>(bytes: &mut std::io::Bytes<R>) -> Self {
                String::read(bytes).as_str().parse::<$t>().unwrap()
            }
        }
    )*)
}
read_float_impl! { f32 f64 }

impl Read for char {
    fn read<R: std::io::Read>(bytes: &mut std::io::Bytes<R>) -> Self {
        bytes.map(|x| x.unwrap())
            .skip_while(|&x| is_whitespace(x))
            .next()
            .unwrap() as char
    }
}

impl Read for String {
    fn read<R: std::io::Read>(bytes: &mut std::io::Bytes<R>) -> Self {
        bytes.map(|x| x.unwrap())
            .skip_while(|&x| is_whitespace(x))
            .take_while(|&x| !is_whitespace(x))
            .map(|x| x as char)
            .collect()
    }
}

impl Read for Vec<char> {
    fn read<R: std::io::Read>(bytes: &mut std::io::Bytes<R>) -> Self {
        bytes.map(|x| x.unwrap())
            .skip_while(|&x| is_whitespace(x))
            .take_while(|&x| !is_whitespace(x))
            .map(|x| x as char)
            .collect()
    }
}

macro_rules! read_tuple_impl{
    ($($t:ident),+) => {
        impl<$($t: Read),*> Read for ($($t),*) {
            fn read<R: std::io::Read>(bytes: &mut std::io::Bytes<R>) -> Self {
                ($($t::read(bytes)),+)
            }
        }
    }
}
read_tuple_impl!(A, B);
read_tuple_impl!(A, B, C);
read_tuple_impl!(A, B, C, D);
read_tuple_impl!(A, B, C, D, E);