#define _GLIBCXX_DEBUG
#include <algorithm>
#include <cassert>
#include <cmath>
#include <cstdarg>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <map>
#include <numeric>
#include <queue>
#include <set>
#include <stack>
#include <string>
#include <utility>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

#define mp make_pair
#define pb push_back
#define fi first
#define se second
#define inf 1001001001
#define mod 1000000007
#define FOR(i,a,b) for(int (i)=((int)a); (i)<((int)b); (i)++) // [a,b)
#define rep(i,N) FOR((i), 0, ((int)N)) // [0,N)
#define all(v) (v).begin(),(v).end()
#define sz(v) ((int)(v).size())
#define in(t,...) t __VA_ARGS__; _in(__VA_ARGS__)

// デバッグ用
// dbg(...) printfと同様に使用可能 
// trc(var) (変数名)=(値)と表示
// stopif(val) 条件分が真の時に止まる
// vdbg(v) vの中身を表示

#ifdef LOCAL
    #define dbg(...) fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__)
    #define trc(var) cout << #var << "=" << var << endl
    #define stopif(val) assert( !(val) )
    #define vdbg(v,...) cout << #v << "={"; vector_debug(v , ##__VA_ARGS__)
#else
    #define dbg(...) 1
    #define trc(...) 1
    #define stopif(...) 1
    #define vdbg(...) 1
#endif

typedef long long ll;
typedef pair<int,int> pii;
typedef pair<ll,ll> pll;
typedef vector<int> vi;
typedef vector<ll> vl;
typedef vector< vector<int> > vvi;
int gcd(int a, int b){if(a>b) swap(a,b); return a==0 ? b : gcd(b%a,a);} ll gcd(ll a, ll b){if(a>b) swap(a,b); return a==0 ? b : gcd(b%a,a);}
template<typename T, typename U> inline bool amin(T &x, U y) { return (y < x) ? (x = y, true) : false; }
template<typename T, typename U> inline bool amax(T &x, U y) { return (x < y) ? (x = y, true) : false; }
template<typename C> inline void vin(vector<C> &v,int N=-1){if(sz(v) != 0){int M=(N == -1) ? sz(v) : N; rep(i,M) cin >> v[i];}else{C c;rep(i,N) v.pb((cin>>c,c));}} template<typename C> inline void vin(C v[],int N){rep(i,N) cin >> v[i];}
template<typename C> inline void vout(const vector<C> &v,int N=-1){int M=(N == -1) ? sz(v) : N; rep(i,M) cout<<( (i)?" ":"" )<<v[i]; cout<<endl; } template<typename C> inline void vout(C v[],int N){rep(i,N) cout<<( (i)?" ":"" )<<v[i]; cout<<endl; }
template<typename C> inline void vector_debug(const vector<C> &v){ostream_iterator<C> o(cout,",");copy(all(v),o);cout<<"}"<<endl;} template<typename C> inline void vector_debug(C v[], int N){rep(i,N) cout<<((i)?",":"")<<*(v+i); cout<<"}"<<endl;}
template<typename C> inline C vmax(const vector<C> &v){C n=v[0]; rep(i,sz(v)) amax(n,v[i]); return n;} template<typename C> inline C vmax(C v[], int N){C n=v[0]; rep( i , N ) amax(n,v[i]); return n;}
template<typename C> inline C vmin(const vector<C> &v){C n=v[0]; rep(i,sz(v)) amin(n,v[i]); return n;} template<typename C> inline C vmin(C v[], int N){C n=v[0]; rep( i , N ) amin(n,v[i]); return n;}
template<typename C> inline C vsum(const vector<C> &v){C n=0; rep(i,sz(v)) n+=v[i]; return n;} template<typename C> inline C vsum(C v[], int N){C n=0; rep( i , N ) n+=v[i]; return n;}
void _in(){} template <typename T,class... U> void _in(T &t,U &...u){ cin >> t; _in(u...);}
void out(){cout << endl;} template <typename T,class... U> void out(T const &t,U ...u){ cout << t; if(sizeof...(u)) cout << ' '; out(u...);}
const int dx[]={1,0,-1,0}; const int dy[]={0,1,0,-1};
//const int dx[]={1,1,1,0,-1,-1,-1,0}; const int dy[]={1,0,-1,-1,-1,0,1,1};

// in(int,A,B,C) int A,B,C; cin >> A >> B >> C;
// out(A,B,C) cout << A << ' ' <<  B << ' ' << C;
// amax(x,y) bool関数　x<yの時にxにyを代入してtrueを返す
// vin(v,N) ベクトル/配列にcinする vout(v,N) ベクトル/配列をcoutする(ベクトルはNを省略可能)

int main(){
    in(int,n);in(string,s);
    int dp[300100];
    rep(i,n){
        if(i == 0)
        dp[i] = count(s.begin()+1,s.begin()+n,'E');
        else{
            dp[i] = dp[i-1];
            if(s[i] == 'E') dp[i]--;
            if(s[i-1] == 'W') dp[i]++;
        }
    }
    vdbg(dp,n);
    out(vmin(dp,n));
}

Measured memory_bytes: 1796