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import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

/**
 *
 * @author baito 
 */
public class Main
{
    static StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    static FastScanner sc = new FastScanner(System.in);
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        
        int N = sc.nextInt();
        String s = sc.next();
        char[] S = s.toCharArray();
        
        int max = 10000000,ans ;
        int allW , allE, lW = 0, lE = 0,rW,rE, tempNow;
        
        allW = s.replace("E","").length();
        allE = s.length() - allW;
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            tempNow = S[i];
            rW = allW - lW;
            rE = allE - lE;
            if(tempNow == 'W'){
                rW--;
                ans = lW + rE;
                lW++;
            }else{
                rE--;
                ans = lW + rE;
                lE++;
            }
            max = Math.min(ans, max);
        }
        System.out.println(max);
    }
    static int gcd(int n, int r) { return r == 0 ? n : gcd(r, n%r); }
    static long gcd(long n, long r) { return r == 0 ? n : gcd(r, n%r); }
	
    static <T> void swap(T[] x, int i, int j) { T t = x[i]; x[i] = x[j]; x[j] = t; }
    static void swap(int[] x, int i, int j) { int t = x[i]; x[i] = x[j]; x[j] = t; }
    
    static class FastScanner {

        private BufferedReader reader = null;
        private StringTokenizer tokenizer = null;
        
        public FastScanner(InputStream in) {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
            tokenizer = null;
        }
        
        public String next() {
            if (tokenizer == null || !tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
                try {
                    tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(reader.readLine());
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
            }
            return tokenizer.nextToken();
        }
        /*public String nextChar(){
            return (char)next()[0];
        }*/
        public String nextLine() {
            if (tokenizer == null || !tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
                try {
                    return reader.readLine();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
            }
            
            return tokenizer.nextToken("\n");
        }
        
        public long nextLong() {
            return Long.parseLong(next());
        }
        
        public int nextInt() {
            return Integer.parseInt(next());
        }
        
        public double nextDouble() {
            return Double.parseDouble(next());
        }
        
        public int[] nextIntArray(int n) {
            int[] a = new int[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                a[i] = nextInt();
            }
            return a;
        }
        public int [][] nextIntArray2(int h, int w){
            int[][] a = new int[h][w];
            for(int hi = 0 ; hi < h ; hi++){
                for(int wi = 0 ; wi < w ; wi++){
                    a[hi][wi] = nextInt();
                }
            }
            return a;
        }
         public Integer[] nextIntegerArray(int n) {
            Integer[] a = new Integer[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                a[i] = nextInt();
            }
            return a;
        }
        public char[] nextCharArray(int n){
            char[] a = next().toCharArray();
            
            return a;
        }
        public char[][] nextCharArray2(int h , int w){
            char[][] a = new char[h][w];
            for (int i = 0; i < h; i++) {
                a[i] = next().toCharArray();
            }
            return a;
        }
        public char[][] nextWrapCharArray2(int h , int w){
            char[][] a = new char[h + 2][w + 2];
            
            for (int i = 1; i < h + 1; i++) {
                a[i] = (" " + next() + " ").toCharArray();
            }
            return a;
        }
        
        
       
        
        public long[] nextLongArray(int n) {
            long[] a = new long[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                a[i] = nextLong();
            }
            return a;
        }
        public long [][] nextLongArray2(int h, int w){
            long[][] a = new long[h][w];
            for(int hi = 0 ; hi < h ; hi++){
                for(int wi = 0 ; wi < h ; wi++){
                    a[h][w] = nextLong();
                }
            }
            return a;
        }
    }
}


Measured memory_bytes: 44056